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My Name is Evil (The Nightmare Room #3)

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It's Maggie O'Conner's thirteenth birthday, and she and her three best friends, triplets Jackie, Jilly, and Judy Mullen, are celebrating by going to a carnival. The triplets think it will be fun if everyone gets their fortunes told, and shy Maggie reluctantly agrees. But while her friends get ordinary enough futures predicted by the fortuneteller, what Maggie is told is anything but ordinary. The fortuneteller tells Maggie that she has evil powers. And it soon becomes clear to Maggie that something is very wrong indeed. Bad things are happening to everyone around her, and soon even the triplets have turned on her. The only one still on Maggie's side is Glen, a boy she has always had a secret crush on. Glen claims he can help Maggie. But is she right to trust Glen - and what are the origins of her terrible powers? Can she get rid of the powers, or will she have to learn to live with them? And why does Glen believe her when no one else does? Read to find out. If you're an R. L. Stine fan like I am, I can guarantee that you won't be dissapointed by this book.

Fans of R.L. Stine's popular Goosebumps series -- probably older now -- will like his brand new NIGHTMARE ROOM series, still sticking with the familiar scares (and laughs) type of style. Though I think his 'scares' are quite funny, this book reflects the writing of the Goosebumps series on perhaps just a notch above the old level. My Name Is Evil is the third installment in this series. Maggie was just an ordinary girl trying to have fun on her thirteenth birthday with her friends. She never really thought she had any evil or darkness in her heart. But that was until she met Miss Elizabeth, the Fortune Teller at the local carnival. From then on, her evil began to get worse, though she can't stop it. The friends she always had are turning against her because of her strange evil powers. Maggie doesn't know what's happening to her, or why she suddenly has evil powers on her thirteenth birthday. Nothing will prepare her for the big surprise in store for her. Before anything else happens, Maggie must do something to stop her evil -- before her world falls apart in front of her eyes.

this book was a mind twisting story of how maggie is evil but at the end is so wierd the person who is real evil at the end.............. read to find out who it is.

loved this book. very suspensefull and thrilling. the end was the best. i thought that the girl was really evil but glen was. i would recomend this book to anyone.

this book was to die for and it had a fabulous ending. everyone should read the r. l. stine books. if your looking for excitement read this book. it always keeps you guessing.

Totally awsome....loved the plot, the suspense and the thrills...one of my best books in the series and a must read for all teens!

This is the third in R.L Stein's Nightmare Room series, which is a fine series of what I'll dub horror-lite, I believe the author is giving a tip of the hat to The Twilight Zone TV series, as each story begins with a very Twilight Zone-esque opening...which you can find in the publisher description on this same page. I rather like this about the series, and all three I have read thus far take a stab at recreating some of the startling, strange and just plain bizarre happenings (so Twilight Zone-ish...also like The Outer Limits, of more recent times) in the lives of the unfortunate soul who happens to be unlucky enough to enter the Nightmare Room.

This volume we encounter Maggie, a shy girl celebrating her 13th birthday with her three best friends in the whole world (the three J's) whom she has known since she was 4 years old. Maggie is just like any other 13 year old; she's trying on her newly minted teenage identity and just trying to have a good time. Her friends take her to the carnival to celebrate and there she encounters the boy she has a crush on (and who one of her friends played a vicious prank on last year) and then is told by a fortune teller that he is evil. The girls laugh it off, but as the story progresses, something terrible is starting to happen and just about everything Maggie touches turns out all wrong. We follow her through a rather bizarre series of "accidents" which lead more and more of Maggie's friends to really believe that she is EVIL! The story, like the others before it, always has a surprise waiting at the end...is Maggie truly evil and out to destroy her friend? Will Maggie survive her trip into the Nightmare Room?

This, for me, was the least subtle of the three I have read so far. It's pretty straight forward in the telling, the reader will find themselves unable to put the book down...each turn of events leaves us asking...it couldn't get WORSE, could it? But yes, it can...and does! The events just keep escalating in a series of accidents that keep us reading to see what's going to happen next. Aside from not being subtle at all, it's also got the least twisted ending...it does have what I think is turning into a "signature twist" at the end, but it's not all that surprising and it's certainly not subtle, you'd have to be pretty thick not to see this one coming, but still...it does have creep factor and the main character is more sympathetic than in the previous books...that is to say that I felt her pain at losing her friends more keenly than I felt the emotions of the main character in either of the other two, so that was a definite bonus! The first book remains my favorite...this one get a B+ from me, simply because it was a bit heavy handed in the building up to the climax and the ending wasn't all that much of a surprise to me. Looking forward to reading more of this series!

Everyone who likes to read books at night, this is a must! It's about a girl who's really nice then suddenly bad things start happening to her friends. Ok I won't spoil the surprise but it's really good. But then All R.L stine's books are!!!!!!!!

My name is evil is the 3rd book in the series of the nightmare room. The series starts going down hill after the excellent locker 13. But it is a very good book with a lot of chills and creepy stuff. The end is dissapointing and the beggining is a little slow. i give it a "B"

Haha, i really did not enjoy this book. I didn't really like the characters, and the plot was so scatterbrained and confusing I didn't really understand what exactly what was going on. I just wanted it to be over.