The New Boy

De: R. L. Stine

Narrado por: C. J. Critt

There's a new boy at Shadyside High School, and he's stolen the hearts of all the girls. Good-looking, athletic Ross Gabriel is the kind of guy that every girl wants to date - including best friends Janie, Eve, and Faith. They've even made a bet on which one of them he'll go out with first. Ross dates a lot of girls - and one by one, they're all murdered. It looks like going out with Ross means flirting with a gruesome and horrifying fate. So when Ross asks Janie out, she isn't sure what she should do. Will her dream date turn into a nightmare? When it comes to writing nerve-jangling thrillers for today's young people, R.L. Stine is the master. With true-to-life teenage characters and clever, hair-raising plots, his best-selling books have captured the imagination of young people across the nation and attracted thousands of reluctant readers to library bookshelves.©1994 Parachute Press, LLC (P)1995 Recorded Books, LLC

Nostalgia feeling

I love old classic R.L. Stine books, The Narrator was a negative for me the breathing was very heavy and distracting. I liked the book 📚

Short & Sweet

Great book! The story line is very thrilling and keeps you guessing. Love the fear street series.

It’s alright

The narrator was very breathy. It was distracting sometimes hearing the deep breaths she was taking. But it was a decent read.

Good story

The story was good and I loved the ending. Great mystery for all ages! I felt like the narrator was slow with reading the story but overall enjoyed the story.

the new boy

Captivating story enjoyed every minute of it. Cj narrated this book to perfection, I'll be looking for more books narrated by her

Narrator sounds too old

Read this in the 90s. Love teen thrillers and re-visiting books from my teens, but the narrator sounds almost elderly. Weird.

So much fun to listen to!

I loved the Fear Street books as a teen and getting to re-experience them as an adult is just as fun. It brings back so many good memories of being curled up safe in my bed while I scared myself late into the night. I thought this story line was really good and actually one of the more believable ones. I had guessed who the killer was earlier on but I did have times I doubted my choice. Give it a listen and I’m sure you’ll have fun, too!

Huh!!!?

Great story but had a lot of huhs. the narrator did a great job.

A solid but not too memorable Fear Street thriller

This was a decent little thriller with some genuine suspense, and the deaths, done off page, are still pretty brutal. RL Stine did a good job of introducing some red herrings and keeping me guessing who the killer really was, AND, more importantly, when the killer was revealed, that person made sense. It was not a twist for the sake of a twist. There is a loose end or two that is not tied up or explained, but I still enjoyed the story, for the most part.

That ending though. Nope. No, ma'am. That guy has too much red flag behavior for my tastes. I also was not thrilled by how dumb Janie's character is. I know RL Stine is not known for writing complex, layered characters, but the way he writes female characters sometimes makes me shake my head. I have to tell myself that this book is a product of its time though.

One really cool thing, if you are an Easter Egg, Stineverse fan, there are many regular Fear Street characters and places mentioned in this book. This might be the book with the most Easter Eggs that I have read, so far.

Great Twist ending

It's funny how emotional and gullible the main character is. However, what actually goes on in the story is messed up. I went from thinking the main character was lame to thinking she's just as vapid as her so called best friends. Worth a listen IMHO.