Goosebumps: Be Careful What You Wish For... by R. L. Stine
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Book Reviews of Goosebumps: Be Careful What You Wish For...
Book Review: goose bumps
Summary: 5 Stars
These books are helping my grandson learn the enjoyment of reading. He was having a hard time, but these books hold his attention and he really looks forward to getting a new one in the series.Book Review: Not The Best, But Still Good
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought that this one was a good book, but it wasn't my favorite. I thought the plot was great, but I just didn't enjoy reading this one. Sorry, but it wasn't too good.
But I love the new cover!!
Book Review: Goosebumps series
Summary: 5 Stars
My son loves the Goosebumps series. He's almost 10 years old, and reads them one after the other. Thank God there are so many of them to read.
Book Review: Goosebumps Be Careful what wish for
Summary: 4 Stars
My grandson loves Goosebumps book and I got him this book for his birthday. He has alot of Goosebumps books.Book Review: Ok, but not Great Reading
Summary: 3 Stars
The books in the Goosebumps series regularly seem to take the vein of a morality tale (of a twisted sort) where one virtue, evil, personality flaw, or issue is taken up as the focus of the story, and Be Careful What You Wish for is no exception. The order of the day here is being careful about what you wish for...in this volume we meet Samantha Byrd a tall young lady who is given heck by Judith Bell and her friend Anna who seem to have no reason for their treatment of Samantha outside of the fact that she's something of an easy target. She's tall, but clumsy...on the basketball team (where Judith is queen) but not a good player. Samantha is constantly miserable about her lot in life...complaining about how mean Judith is and taking one insult after another from her without much protesting at the time.
One day on the way home from school Sam helps a woman named Clarissa find her way...she's become turned around and Sam is kind enough to walk her practically across town to get to the right street. As a reward, Clarissa offers her three wishes. Sam is incredulous, but hastily makes a wish anyway...to be the strongest basketball player on the team. As with all wishes, this one goes awry...instead of making her a better player, she becomes the strongest player when ALL her other teammates become ill and bedridden. In a panic, she tries to right her wish but only manages to make it progressively worse...until in misery she makes a final wish...and...well, you'll have to read to find out how it works out. I will say that what you get is always different than what you expect with these stories, and Be Careful What You Wish For is no exception, it does have a signature Twilight Zone--esque twist at the end.
Overall, Be Careful What You Wish For is well written and the characters are simple but adequately written, but this one just doesn't work as well as some of the previous stories in the series. Samantha doesn't come across as sympathetic and at the end I was left with a kind of eh...whatever, feeling. I just didn't really care about her enough and it came to rather swift ending. I give it three stars, it's entertaining, but no great shakes.