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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
R. L. Stine's "The Boyfriend",
By A Customer
This review is from: The Boyfriend (Point Horror Series) (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this story when I was in high school. My sister bought it and read it, and though I seldom read YA novels, I did pick this one up and finished it in a couple of hours. It was really very good, the best YA book I had read to date. Because I liked it, I read a lot of R. L. Stine novels after that. "The Boyfriend" was the best of them.Joanna, the main character, is a rich girl who has a thing for wild boys. Dex, the "boyfriend", is a talented boy, an actor, who lives with his aunt on the wrong side of town, and he's Joanna's type...at first. But the differences between them, that they move about in different social circles, doesn't sit well with Joanna and she gets bored with Dex and stands him up a lot. She has her eyes on Shep, a boy from a well-to-do family. In the middle of the night, after being stood up again, Dex persuades Joanna to go for a ride to the canyon accompanied by his friend Pete. Once at the Promontory, Dex starts goofing off like he always does, playing around on the edge of the cliff...and slips. Joanna hears Dex's body break as it hits the ground below. And in a rush of terror and confusion, she drives away from the scene and gets into a car accident. Joanna winds up in the hospital with minor injuries but Pete tells her that Dex didn't make it. 'Dex is dead, Joanna,' Pete says, 'and you RAN away!' Joanna feels bad, tells Pete she was going for help. He doesn't believe her and leaves angry. She is sad to hear that Dex is dead, but strangely feels relieved too. But Dex comes back from the grave to torment Joanna for abandoning him. The characterizations are among R. L. Stine's strongest and in the end the reader is still uncertain as to what really happened to Dex that night at the Promontory. I won't let the cat out of bag, but after finishing the book, you'll understand what I mean. I recommend this story highly.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ashley's review,
A Kid's Review
This review is from: The Boyfriend (Point Horror Series) (Mass Market Paperback)
REVIEW
I liked this book a lot because it is just great! When I read it I felt like I was in the book, it's that good. The main character is Joanna. She an 18teen year old girl with a boyfriend named Dex. Joanna and Dex have been going out for a long time now but... Joanna has been cheating on him with a guy named Shep. But something even more important is happening and it has to do with Dex. He has been acting and looking weird lately. He turning green, and his eyes are all red, his skin is peeling and he has this gross smell of garbage. But in the end there is a little surprise for you!! I think everyone will like this book I mean who couldn't!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Her boyfriend's back...from the grave.",
By A Customer
This review is from: The Boyfriend (Point Horror Series) (Mass Market Paperback)
In "The Boyfriend," Joanna Collier wants to break up with her current boyfriend, Dex, in order to date someone new: Shep Forrest. But she doesn't get the chance to do so before Dex accidentally falls off a cliff to his death. Then six weeks later, she starts receiving phone calls and visits from her "dead" boyfriend. Was his death just a misunderstanding--or is he really back from the grave as a zombie?Like most of Stine's books, "The Boyfriend" is a quick read and can be finished off in only a few hours; but, unfortunately, it's also formulaic and episodic. There aren't too many surprises, either, that Stine fans can't figure out for themselves one step ahead, leaving a rather disappointing mess at the end. Nevertheless, his books do have an appeal like junk food: there's no real nutritional value to them and they probably rot young readers' brains, but they're quickly-gratifying and addictive. Worth reading if you're looking for some semi-scary mind candy.
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