Not very good compared to the others. ( )

Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave; and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough.

#15 "They're coming for you...."
Eddie is sick and tired of Courtney's cocky attitude and her always making him and the rest of their friends feel like wimps. But Eddie has a trick up his sleeve, he's concocted the perfect plan to scare Courtney so bad she won't scare her friends anymore. But when things get a little too real it's not just Courtney that gets scared. ( )

So, my decision to read all of the Goosebumps books has brought me into contact with a great many sub-par entries within the series itself. This was one of them. While it wasn't as terrible as, say [b: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder|125560|Piano Lessons Can Be Murder (Goosebumps, #13)|R.L. Stine|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328868218s/125560.jpg|1733997] or [b: Why I'm Afraid of Bees|125583|Why I'm Afraid of Bees (Goosebumps, #17)|R.L. Stine|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328866712s/125583.jpg|120948] this one is still not terribly stellar. A bit surprising seeing how it is such an early Goosebump book.

Anyway, the plot.

Like most Goosebump books this one features an utterly despicable kid. In this case, it's the protagonist. Upset at how he's utterly incapable of doing anything useful or productive he vows to scare Courtney, a classmate of his. The book follows his failed attempts to do so, or to do much of anything, until the very end when MUD MONSTERS enter the picture.

That's right.

Mud monsters.

Yeah. Not one of the more memorable Goosebump books.

I wonder if Mud Monsters made it into the movie?

Thrills and chills... ( )

I really enjoyed this trip through my childhood nostalgia. The characters were great and there were some fun moments to watch. ( )