| Title | : | The Fourth Closet (Five Nights at Freddys, #3) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1338139320 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781338139327 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 |
| Publication | : | First published June 26, 2018 |
Meanwhile, there's a new animatronic pizzeria opening in Hurricane, along with a new rash of kidnappings that feel all too familiar. Bound together by their childhood loss, John reluctantly teams up with Jessica, Marla, and Carlton to solve the case and find the missing children. Along the way, they'll unravel the twisted mystery of what really happened to Charlie, and the haunting legacy of her father's creations.
The Fourth Closet (Five Nights at Freddys, #3) Reviews
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IM EMOTIONAL DONT TOUCH ME
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The Fourth Closet by Scott Cawthon tied up some of the FNAF literature universe, but opened up a whole 'nother can of worms.
I was a little too hooked to this book, but mainly because I am totally obsessed with the FNAF lore. The video games, the potential movie, the books! All of them are my guilty pleasure, which I will easily admit. But this book? It tops the other two. I found the first book to be intriguing, the second book to lag just a bit, and this book went flying off the handle to utter insanity! In a good way.
If you are going to take anything out of this book, it's the strange way Scott is weaving and changing lore. The books don't perfectly match up to the video games, but they will definitely spike your interest if you have played the games. There are easter eggs and references to so many different parts of the games that it's almost hard to keep track of. Yet, it all works for perfectly well.
I found myself really hooked to this story and I didn't want to put it down. It is fast paced and full of crazy twists and turns that you will need to read the first three books for. But, you could easily jump into this series if you haven't played the games. Playing the games just makes the easter eggs in this book more fun!
If you don't like sci-fi or thriller type books, this novel isn't for you. The hype about the supernatural aspects of this book is unreal and goes beyond what I expected. The book is no longer just a silly YA novel, it's full of technology and supernatural twists.
I found the ending... interesting. I'll leave it at just that word, because the ending left me feeling like I had tons more questions coming out then going in. While I did get some answers and I thought the ending itself was a nice way to tie up the story, it really didn't tie up the story that well. It made the story end, but it didn't close the story as nicely as I wanted. So, maybe there will be another side series or another game or something that ties this storyline up. I hope, anyways.
Five out of five stars.
This was one of the few books I paid full price for. This whole series I was desperate to read, so lucky Scott Cawthon got my money on this one. -
This was my favorite book of this trilogy it was wrapped up well and by the end everything made sense. I loved the characters especially John and I like the whole group I liked what Charlie ended up being that just made sense once you put it all together. I loved the story it was an amazing conclusion to one of my favorite stories the writing was so good there were plenty of good scares and it was really thrilling loved it so much. So overall I loved this book so much that I really want more.
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I'm so confused. I loved it though. I have my own theories,as everyone else does, but I plan to keep them to myself for a while and try to organize my thoughts.
An hour later i wrote a long theorie so I'm just going to share it.
“‘Are the kids all right?’ he asked not sure he wanted to hear the answer.
‘They’re safe. All of them,’ Jessica said quickly.
‘All of them?’ Carlton said in joyful disbelief.
‘Yes. You saved him, the last one.’ Jessica smiled.”
This was thrilling and confusing and just, in general, a great series. I can’t say I didn’t see a few things coming, like how Charlie was a robot, but I loved it. That's all I have to say, not getting into spoilers, so stop reading if you don’t want to be spoiled, but now I will continue.
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I’m skipping right to the ending, with Carlton. I loved his determination because of Michael. The children he met inside the . . . what should I call it? A dream? It was like a dream that was real. . . yeah. But Scott left something a mystory I don’t think anyone noticed. There were only 2 boys and 2 girls, and Carlton. That means one child was missing. This could mean that at the end of the second book, when the animatronics vanished, one could have gotten away. Now I’ll line up which children I think go with which robot and why.
Susie goes with Foxy. I think this because of how it was funtime Foxy that Afton commanded to get the child, as seen on page 333 and 334. We know that Afton somehow got ahold of the animatronics and I would assume that he put them in the same robots as they were in. We can also tell the he put a tiny part of them inside of each of his new robots, because of how Susie was controlling funtime Foxy.
I think Cassidy goes with Chica, because Chica is, what we assumed was, the only girl, but now that we know the the main four there was 2 girls, which was mentioned in the first book and I tried to mention to everyone but no one would listen.
Next is Michael, who we know for certain is Golden Freddy. We know this because in the past books each of the main characters (Besides Lamar, but no one cares about him he never came back in the next two books) felt a connection to them, and in the second book John, Jessica, and Clay didn’t get through to the animatronics until John looked Golden Freddy straight into the eye and talked to him using the name Michael.
Next is Fritz. Everyone thought he went to Foxy because of the Lorekeeper keding in FNAF 6, but if Susie is Foxy, that means Fritz is either Freddy or Bonnie. Now this also means we don’t know who one of the ones that possess the animatronics are, but I have a guess that its either Jeremy or Gabriel, again from the Lorekeeper ending revealing the names of the animatronics. But this also means that there one soul still left, or Scott just never mentioned his name. That's probably what happened knowing Scott.
Now let's get to Elizabeth. I had one gigantic theorie running through my head about her. Her animatronic form was made by Henry, and she was the second Charlie made. Then, when Henry made the Third and last Charlie, she was tossed out. I think when the house collapsed, at the end of the second book, Afton found the second Charlie. He instantly send her out to try to convince her friends that she was still alive while he worked on making Circus Baby's Pizzeria, and also the Endo. . .Body? That's what I’ll call it. Now while he was Dave, I think he met up while his Ex wife, which we can assume he had one because we knew he had another child which is like the second Purple guy, from the game. I think sometime before the events of the books, he made a child and he called her Elizabeth. Then, he got one of the Disc to make the Charlie appear friendly, and look like Baby. Then when the restaurant was opened his daughter was there, and Afton told her not to go near Baby, but she did, and Baby ate her. Well if you consider that getting eaten. Her soul then went on to possess the Charlie Baby abomination. It could have also happened before the third books when Elizabeth was eaten, but then she wouldn't have been sent out the next day. It could have also happened before Afton was Springtrap or even Dave. Before he killed anyone. He could have found the Charlie and took it, and Henry wouldn't have noticed because of how happy he was from the Third Charlie. He then could have made the deadly extensions to it, then his daughter at the time his daughter could have admired her and she got too close and got eaten, then he was training her to act like Charlie. Good lord this story is violent.
I’m out of breath.
Now on to Charlie. Oh god, where do I start. Charlie was a robot from her father, and she didn’t know. Somehow she still acted like a real person, experiencing emotion, bleeding, and pain. I think Henry was going insane and but Charlies bones in the third robot and that's what lead her to possess the Charlie. . .bot, and have all the emoting. I have another theory about the blood. Clay said he found fake blood at the Pizzeria and Afton promised that is wasn’t his, so I think it was Charlie's because she could bleed, from the wound she got from Foxy's hook, and it was fake blood because she is not human.
I think that's all my theories and I think I solved everything. (If anything is here is correct I appealed my brain for thinking in the ways of a killer. I think I’m also going insane from trying to solve this but it’s okay.) -
There better be another one...
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I'm so confused. I need a day to process this book.
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If you are a fan of the games and book series then you are going to enjoy this conclusion. It may answer some burning questions or at least give the readers more to theorize about while they try to connect the books to the Five Nights at Freddy's game series. The only reason why I am giving it a three is because the writing is not great and for dropped plot lines like everyone car pooling to one destination only for everyone to split up and have their own cars magically there for them to take. Again, if you like the series then you will enjoy this book and may even find this one the best of the three.
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um, I’m like... really confused with the ending. It’s the last book and I feel that there were so many things unanswered.
so I guess I’ll binge game theories now 🤷🏻♀️ -
Mam problem. A mój problem polega na tym, że chociaż książkę nadal świetnie mi się czytało, właściwie ją pochłonęłam, to od strony fabularnej zostawia mnie z jednym wielkim "WTF?". Mam w tym momencie jeszcze więcej pytań niż odpowiedzi, a właściwie tylko mały fragment mogę powiedzieć bez spoilerów.
Pamiętacie jak William bardzo czegoś chciał od Charlie? No to nie ma to już znaczenia, bo chyba sam o tym zapomniał. Możemy się na podstawie przebiegu historii tylko domyślać, co miał na myśli.
Carltona uwielbiam i uwielbiam go zdecydowanie najbardziej spośród wszystkich 3 części. Wie, kiedy faktycznie być poważny, ale nie opuszcza go jego specyficzne poczucie humoru. W ogóle wszystkie postacie są jakieś przyjemniejsze w odbiorze i lepiej ogarnięte.
Oczywiście nie muszę mówić, że moim ulubieńcem i tak pozostaje William. Tu staje się bardziej stonowany, poważniejszy, mniej szalony. Niestety, nie dowiadujemy się, jakim cudem przeżył pierwszy strój zatrzaskowy i nie poznajemy ukrytej za tym historii. Właściwie dalej nie znamy też jego motywów. Dlaczego postanowił zabić jedno z dzieci Henry'ego? Dlaczego w ogóle postanowił zabijać dzieci? Niby udziela nam odpowiedzi, ale brzmi to raczej jak efekt innego wydarzenia, o którym nie wiemy, i dalej nie wyjaśnia masy spraw.
Brakowało mi tu pewnych uzupełnień historii. Brakowało mi większej ilości wewnętrznych przeżyć bohaterów związanych z jakimiś wydarzeniami. Brakowało mi ich wspomnień, szczególnie w kontekście Williama i Charlie. Coś było, ale zbyt mało lub zbyt szczątkowo.
I ok, było mi autentycznie szkoda pewnej dziewczynki. Henry'ego tez jak w żadnej innej części.
A końcowa scena kompletnie namieszała mi w głowie. Domyślam się, kto to mógł być, ale biorąc pod uwagę, co działo się wcześniej, kompletnie nie widzę w tym sensu. Albo po prostu nie umiem zinterpretować tej sceny i widziałam, że nie tylko ja miałam z nią problem.
I pytam: DLACZEGO imię "Baby" zostało przetłumaczone? DLACZEGO?
Początek może być trochę nużący, ale gdy akcja się rozpocznie, to będzie trwać. Oczywiście uważam, że przeczytać tę książkę jak najbardziej warto, szczególnie jak nie zwraca się zbyt mocno uwagi na jakieś dziwne zawiłości w fabule, ale można poczuć niedosyt przez to, że wiele rzeczy pozostaje niejasnych. -
Wow.
((SPOILERS AHEAD))
I mean I can't say I'm happy with the ending, because who could be happy with that ending. But I can say that it was an AMAZING ending!
A lot of books will just go where is predictable they won't veer off the beaten path so to speak. Sure they'll throw a few curve balls here and there but usually the ending is pretty much the same. And I really hate books that leave you with those "open to interpretation" endings. I want a solid answer not whatever I think happened cause that's no fun!
This books ending was a strange mix of both interpretation and an actual answer. We got our answer about Charlie yet a lot is still left open for us to figure out. I'm sure if you think back on the book as a whole it will make sense but still. I have so many questions.
And can I just say A ROBOT CHARLIE WAS A ROBOT THE WHOLE TIME!! Not only that but DID JOHN KNOW??
I have no doubt in my mind the woman John went to the arms of was Charlie. Who else could it be? Baby (or Elizabeth) is obviously dead. Charlie should have been dead too but did something else happen?
And honestly the fact that Charlie was literally dead. Like never even really lived at all kind of rips my heart out. She was three years old and no one even knew. How did she die? If William took her and just killed her then who is Elizabeth? Who was the little girl that Baby took the soul of? Because I thought that was Charlie. I thought it was the Charlie William took. I thought maybe Henry got her back and the trauma of the kidnapping was just like locked out of her mind.
I'm so happy and upset with this book. I loved it but I'm angry that it's the last one. I seriously need like a prequel or something to explain Henry and what the absolute heck happened with him. And maybe an epilogue to explain who John went with specifically and what happened to him.
I am happy the children all got to go into the light. They finally got to move on instead of being trapped in that poor melted body. And William is dead so that's good.
But I've got so many questions. Like (and I'm sure I missed it and it's probably really obvious and I'm just missing it) but what was behind the door that Charlie kept hearing the heartbeat? Was it the dumping ground for her old bodies? And what happened to her old body? Did her Aunt have a spare on hand? Was her aunt even real? How did she show up when Charlie "died" in the second book?
I know that revealing all of this will destroy the nice cryptic vibe that these books have but is it so much to ask for some clear and blunt answers?
What happened to Sammy? And Charlie's mom? Are they just out there living their lives not even knowing what happened to Henry or the Charlie Bots he built? I know loosing a kid is really rough but what happened that made Henry completely disregard Sammy and become obsessed with the not-Charlie? I really wish I could do like an interview with Cawthon and Breed-Wrisley just to get the idea of what was going on in their heads. Cause apart from a few things I am at a complete loss and it's really bugging me...
I really liked this series. I thought it took the silly creepiness of the games and brought them a new light. I can't ever go to Chuck-E-Cheezes now but it's probably fine. 10/10 loved it. -
Scott, I don't know if you know what you're doing because I sure don't. While this wasn't as bad as The Twisted Ones, and does answer a few questions, you have to dig through the story to find the answers. Are we looking at a book number four? You kind of ended this one almost exactly the same way as number 2.
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disclaimer: i feel the need to explain that my five star ratings are just a flat "recommendation" and not a glowing review like you would normally expect.
This book kinda freaked me out a bit. I wasn't expecting to be as invested as I was. I read the other two in the series and liked them enough, and I've been very very loosely trying to keep track with what the games are all about. I'm not exactly a 'fnaf' expert and I wasn't expecting to be particularly invested in this book, especially considering i've had it for like a whole year since it came out and i've barely touched it after the first couple paragraphs.
but holy cow, geez, uu h .
so, i finished this in one sitting?
I've never been the biggest fan of YA stuff, nor am I a big fan of thrillers. I say horror is one of my favorite genres, just not horror thrillers specifically. Too often YA and thrillers both shoehorn in needless elements purely just because, i guess, they're sort of just "expected" to be there. The pace always has to be on 110 percent, obviously, its a thriller, right? so, PLOT TWIST! CLIFFHANGER! STEALTH SCENE! or, in YA stuff: there HAS to be SOME romantic elements, right? It's a YA book! etc.
I don't hate romance or plot twists I just think it's annoying when a story doesnt really commit to being about those things and just, like, has them.
stapled on top.
"Why would you ever write a dystopian novel about rebellion if theres not a romantic subplot?" is the type of question that needless genre conforming compels people to ask, and that's baffling to me. I've used this example elsewhere, but it'd be like if there was a law mandating that all films, books, etc ever made must include a baking competition at some point in the plot.
Sure, some stories would work out just fine, because there are some stories written in OUR universe (without that hypothetical law) that are already about baking competitions. But trying to shove that in there somehow in a story about like a bank heist is gonna raise a few eyebrows.
i bring my dislike of YA and thrillers up because i'm not entirely sure what to classify the fnaf books as, if not YA-thrillers. I'd almost argue it doesn't fall into those traps though, weirdly enough, by the time it comes to a close. I have my own issues with it -- spectacular issues all of its own! -- but it largely stayed clear of...those ones.
I would argue it really is about a million plot twists, monologues, and a romantic subplot, by the time it comes to a head. Of course, by the time it comes to a head, it also dissolves into existential nightmares about the reliability of memories and the existence of a spirit world, which feels absurdly off base on the one hand and on the other hand, as ive mentioned before,
it
freaked
me
out.
like, holy geez. I'm not sure entirely what to make of my experience other than that it was, at least, legitimately affecting, and clearly at least a little captivating. To be fair, half the reason I didn't put it down once after i started reading was that the entire way through I had the well-founded fear that if i did put it down, i would literally never pick it back up again.
Part of thats in the underdeveloped prose and lack of place a lot of the scenes (not all of them! just a lot) had, which meant i had to put in an extended amount of effort of my own trying to track what like, the rooms all looked like, and often times just to figure out what was happening in the first place. There are plenty of beats where I legitimately just didn't understand what was going on, so I had to read afterwards and fill in the gaps later as to what *might* have happened, or at least a suitable alternative as to what really happened. That was a lot of effort and I sorta felt like if I stopped reading, I'd never be invested enough to pick it back up again and expend all that attention.
Of course the book did carry its own weight a lot of the time, and this is a really important detail wherein i might dissent a little bit from some other reviewers, because i really liked EVERY single main protagonist across this series. If something bad were to happen to any of them, I'd feel legitimately bummed out, and when a given scene had actual stakes, I was actually rooting for the protagonists to make it out alive! There's no shortage of weird robot chase scenes or sneaky sleuth stealth scenes, and I was genuinely into it a lot of the time.
The way the plot progressed was, actually, surprisingly compelling, ratcheting up the conflict with several well placed reveals which, to me, proved to be all really interesting. And, weirdly enough, all of them had little to do with the previous books, for the most part. There was sort of an underlying mystery in the previous books but the central mystery here mostly revolved around the very very ending of the last book, with of course plenty of plot points from the previous ones being reintroduced to help explore this new mystery in a sense
and then it stops. it eventually pulls back and the last third is a weird mad dash to explain all the mysteries of the previous books, and it was exhausting to read. Like, legitimately exhausting, long plot dumps, but heres the problem here
i was legitimately invested in every protagonist, and for all its faults, at least every protagonist was legitimately invested in these really long plot dumps
this increased emphasis on the supernatural, extradimensional stuff sort of had an oddly similar effect on me as, like, the weirder sequences in twin peaks, where I'm similarly invested in the fates of the protagonists but it kinda broadens out and questions the importance of those characters in the first place. We catch a glimpse into this "child afterlife" where the plot-relevant dead kids are all hanging out like its freetime at preschool forever and im reading it being mostly concerned with the safety of the POV character of the scene more than the actual far-out genre sensibilities. Problem is?
I am LEGITIMATELY invested in that POV character
this is the part that "freaked. me. out."
my problem, really, is that at some point i was tricked into caring about these people. The plot isnt really about them so it became strangely, cosmically depressing the longer it went on.
this is compounded by the eventual, capital B "BIG PLOT TWIST" which i'd already predicted about halfway into the previous book and was REALLY hoping wouldn't be the plot twist because it sounded very much uninteresting to me. It was, technically, uninteresting to me, but because its so existentially tied to the nature of one of the protagonists it proved to be not boring just really, really upsetting, in a way i couldn't have predicted
i wasnt joking when i say this book freaked me out. it wasnt scary it just kinda f'd me up a little bit with its weird dichotomy of likable protagonists and a plot that is unconcerned with these protagonists
i mentioned how i read this book in one sitting. such a thing is LITERALLY unprecedented, btw. Books i completely connect with and fall in love with, like the time machine or the time ships, both took me about a month, and the other books on my reading list which are all books im really really enjoying have been keeping me company for about a year
somehow this one cast a weird spell on me and kept a weird, sustained "meta dread" throughout. I just really hoped the plot wouldnt be what it was. but what can i say? it was.
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Me ha agradado más el primer libro aunque en general si me han gustado , solo que quisiera una precuela de estos libros
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I was so distraught when Charlie died in the second book. But when she died in the third I was okay with it. It gave it a resolute ending that didn't fail to disappoint. It was sad (to me anyway) that she was an animatronic the whole time but it reminded me of a post-apocalyptic book I read a while back. I smiled when John walked away with the woman in the end. I will always assume that it was Charlie he walked away with. Whether that puts the point that Charlie is still "alive", she's an allusion of John's mind, or John died. All in all, it was a great book and I enjoyed reading the series.
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This was definitely the best of the three. I think what I find the most fascinating about this horror series is the emotions it pulls from you and how attached you become to the story and the characters. Even at the end, once we figure out (and acknowledge) who Charlie really is, you are still emotionally connected to her. I feel like this still might not be the end, but with Scott who knows! Lol.
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This was such a great series! Book 3 really clears a few things up that book 2 didn’t, it just left you hanging. I do wish these were canon but either way they were great! I’d love to see a Five Nights At Freddy’s movie.
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i read this series as a bit, and i didnt think 1 was very good, and 2 was frankly pretty terrible. but for some reason this third one is, like, legitimately good. what makes it different from the other 2? ive placed a few reasons:
1. there is an actual mystery central to the story. in the first two, lets be frank, the first 3/4 of the stories are just padding to get the kids into chuck e cheese. "who could be killing these people?" i dunno, maybe some sort of robot. we all know how each of these books are gonna end, location-wise. but the hook of 3 is that theres are actual questions about the true identity of a major character that takes a while to get resolved. i found the build-up sections of the first two books lacking wherein there wasnt really a "hook" for the story. but this one has one, and a fun one too.
2. higher stakes. since this is technically the last one published, you get to worrying whats gonna happen to the characters. this isnt really work from the authors standpoint, actually, just a matter of it being the last in a trilogy. regardless, this adds to the mood.
3. plot feels more cohesive. the characters actually have reason to be doing things this time around. 1 didnt really have any point to the characters doing what they were doing, and 2, frankly, felt totally uncessesary most of the time. here there are legitimate motivations at play and not just "oh were breaking and entering for the third night in a row, for no real reason".
somehow all the elements that FAILED in earlier books in the series, work here. ive tried to lay out what was different in this one. or at least thats my rationalization for how much better the fnaf 3 novel is than 1 & 2.
i think this is decent YA horror. it certainly surprised me how much i enjoyed it, but you have to think to yourself if its worth getting through the first two, far worse, stories in order to get to this one. -
Out of all of the books, this was the best. Was this series worth three weeks of my time? No. But I've got some deeper understanding of the lore now😂. Do I believe Scott when he said that the books are not canon? Absolutely not. Do I believe MatPat's belief that Charlotte and Henry's last name is Emily? Absolutely not. But it was fun to see some of the cameos and stuff. And knowing Scott and the FNAF series, cameos are never just that. So once again, I think it's complete BS when he says the books aren't canon. There's too much overlap and things that help piece more lore together for this to not be canon.
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wowza
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best book in the trilogy by far. i loved reading this
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to by było takie 4.75⭐️, bo jedna osoba moim zdaniem jeszcze powinna zginąć na koniec, ale ogólnie to bardzo fajne, polecam❤️
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this book made me both super excited and hurt by far the best one
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mid. knowing the lore it was fun but idk how matpat got what he did from this lol
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“What do you think, should we see if the old formula still works?”
The third and (for now?) final book in the series. Man, this was something. I'm honestly not too sure how to feel about it quite yet, but I probably never will. The book wasn't that great, but my love for the FNAF franchise probably clouds my judgement.
First of all, when I read book 1 and book 2, both times I managed to finish them within a couple of weeks. However, there was something about this one that just made me hesitate to pick it up time and time again, resulting in me taking a few weeks to finish it.
After the cliffhanger from
The Twisted Ones, I was eager to pick up this book and continue the series. I really enjoyed that one, but overall, this book let me down. It's something I've grown to expect, so I can't say I'm surprised. This book was messy, confusing and it left me with more questions than I had going into this.
The change of perspective was... odd. The first few chapters follow John instead of Charlie, which makes sense considering what happened to her, but at the same time, it doesn't. I liked how some of the characters who were absent in book 2 were back now, but it wasn't enough. There was too much going on at the same time, too many switches in point of view.
Basically, the plot line of this book splits in three different stories.
A) John and Charlie
B) Jessica
C) Carlton and Marla
Jessica, Carlton and Marla meet up at some point, but then it continues as "Jessica and Marla" and "Carlton". Meanwhile, John and Charlie are still going around doing who knows what?Nothing sexual, other than some gruesome details at times, this book is rather PG
While I like how Sister Location gets thrown into the book series as well, I don't know how to feel about the execution. It just feels... odd. Why would a town allow a pizzeria with animatronics similar to those at Freddy's to open? Two of them were even referred to as 'Freddy' and 'Foxy'. Like what? I don't get it. Probably never will.
I guess I went into this expecting too much. I loved the games and really enjoyed the first two books, but this just didn't do it for me. The ending was confusing and very much unsatisfying, I was skimming through the last few chapters. I'm kind of glad the series is over, this shouldn't be more than a trilogy.
With pain in my heart, I'll be giving this book a 2.5/5 stars. I'm considering checking out the Fazbear's Fright series, since my FNAF loving heart can't seem to let go. But at this point I'm almost convinced that this should've stayed as just games. While the other two books were must reads for FNAF fans, I cannot say the same about this one. -
That was...a lot of information. This series as a whole was really good in concept and made a lot of sense for the lore of the video games...that is if you could understand what’s happening half the time! I really do enjoy these books, they’re a little creepy and fun and you truly do find yourself wanting to know what happened but this last installment really kind of threw me for a loop. When I finished The Twisted Ones I could barely even wait for this book and I must admit, it was a bit of a let down. Something I’ve realized with this series is (as expected by a game developer) it’s been written in a rather amateur fashion. Often times things are barely described and I found myself close to NEVER being able to understand what the places they were in were supposed to look like; everything was so big and crazy it was hard to interpret. Any big reveal that these books have always leave me wishing that they were explained better, I understand the general concept of what they’re trying to say but they lose me in the details...I never expected these books to be written amazingly as they are a bit silly and written by someone who isn’t an author, and for being made by people who are not usually book writers, it is surprisingly good but could be better! I really wish this book was a better send off for the series but I could see a fourth book in the series being very helpful!
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i had a lot of fun reading all three of these children's books written for kids and laughing about how bad they are with my fellow adult friends.
five nights at freddy's cannot be anything but a game, the core conceit is impossible to adapt to any other medium. the games like to pretend that they have incredibly involved plots, but there is absolutely nothing to them outside of seeing a scary face scream at you when you lose. trying to draw from the convoluted, nonsensical ""lore"" of the games while omitting the jumpscares leaves you with this book series, something tired, confused, and agonizingly slow despite being under 400 pages each. the worst part is that this book (along with the first) gets so close to actually having themes that drive the plot and tell a story outside of spooky ghost robots being weird. it just never goes any further then glancing ideas about abandonment and trauma before very quickly moving onto New Scene New Scary Animatronic. the plot ends jumbled and nonsensical. none of the back half of the book is even kinda creepy. if you're a kid you should read animorphs instead of this. -
This is definitely a trilogy that could have benefited from stopping with the first book. The second book was only saved by its surprise ending. This book was totally ridiculous start to end. There was no plot. It was mostly just a bunch of random action scenes clumped together of kids running from the animatronics. Very little of the end of book two was really properly explained here and huge chunks of what is supposedly going on in this book isn't properly explained. Literally, nothing makes sense and it's just kids running away. Kids who miraculously managed to outsmart murderous animatronics every single time.
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MAJOR SPOILERS!!!
This was way better, no lie. I honestly don't want to give to much away but my hatred for the main girl Charlie was justified since she wasn't even a real person, she was a freaking robot, no wonder i hated her so much.
I loved the different perspectives instead of focusing on Charlie, even if it is all about her. It honestly made me feel more empathy for the characters and the trials they have to go through.
This was a good book to end a decent series based somewhat on the revolutionary game series. Now on to the movie!
