The ending was hard to believe and did nothing to redeem Lindy’s characterisation. And, of course, Lindy is hot, tall and blonde and men can’t help but stare at her whereas her psycho best friend is a plain Jane who needs to lose weight and had to wait until she was 24 to get a boyfriend who actually wants Lindy. I honestly think what she was most sensitive about were her tragic, eye-catching, model-like good looks. For God’s sake, she got felt up against her will twice by the same drunk guy (on two different occasions) and did absolutely nothing.Īlso, we are given information about her work, her dead boyfriend or her mother's death (to flesh Lindy out I suppose) but we aren't showed how any of that impacted her. The male characters weren't charming or interesting, not even the one she ended up with.Īs for Lindy, she was passive and flat. Namely Brill, Lindy's dad, Luisa, Rita and Saralynn. I didn't like the characters and even found some of them useless. Lindy spent the whole book not suspecting Ann-Marie at all but in the last pages she miraculously recalls times when things had been weird to back up the Big Reveal. The scene in which Brad or Jake tells Lindy he decided to get back together with his ex-girlfriend on an empty beach was so dramatic it was plain ridiculous. The author tried hard to keep the readers on their toes with twists and dramatization but the result was over-the-top and forced. Stine before and I wasn't impressed with the style, plot devices or characters. The twist about Shelly only writing and imagining murders was actually so good and unexpected that it had me confused before it was all clarified by Tommy. The characters I suspected screamed "obvious" but weren't guilty. I'll concede it was creepy enough and I was surprised by the twists. I'm glad this book was a quick read for the good parts didn't outweigh the bad ones. The show is extremely loosely based on the book and the two don't have much in common. Let’s get this out of the way : if you're considering reading Eye Candy after watching MTV's TV show of the same name, just don't. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. But Lindy Sampson doesn’t know the half of it-and what she doesn’t know could kill her. Lindy suspects everyone, even the one person she thought she could trust. From the East Village to the Hamptons, panic and paranoia shadow her every move. Which one of her admirers is a deadly freak? Lindy is now forced to say yes to everything the four men ask of her-dates, invitations to spend the night, anything. Until she gets a terrifying note that warns: “Don’t say no, Lindy. Suddenly, Lindy is dating four guys at once-and having the time of her life. Her roommate suggests Internet dating and writes a personal ad for Lindy, calling her “Eye Candy.” The responses pour in. Lindy Sampson is a beautiful twenty-three-year-old New Yorker with an unusual problem: She’s too beautiful, and guys are intimidated by her. Stine’s dark, sexy thriller-now an MTV original series starring Victoria Justice. A chilling game of lies, secrets, and manipulation awaits in R. But one of the guys she’s met online might be a stone-cold killer.
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