Fetch (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #2) by Scott Cawthon

Fetch (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #2) Reviews

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  mckenna ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

  Hooray for the second installment of Fazbear Frights! I don't know quite what it is about these short story compilations but I immensely enjoy reading them and fly through the whole novel in record speed. They may have cliches and cringey moments but regardless of that, diving deeper into the FNaF lore is always something that leaves readers like myself wanting more. Scary situations are hidden in middle grade-like themes but that doesn't mean these stories can't still get dark! So let's discuss...
  
  Fetch: 4 stars
  
  "If the dog was human, forensics would point to Greg in a nanosecond. But the corpse was a dog. He didn't figure there'd be much of an investigation when the dog was found. It looked like the nasty little thing had been mauled by a coyote.
  
  But it hadn't."
  
  Greg and his friends decide to break into the town's old pizzeria and see what secrets hide inside for some excitement, but the last thing they expect to find is Fetch. A mechanical dog that syncs to your smartphone, but the strange thing is, in the year when the dog seemed to be built smartphones didn't even exist yet. Suddenly spooked, Greg and his friends run far away from the pizzeria and do not plan to go back. All is well until Greg gets a mysterious text message, somehow Fetch has connected to Greg's phone and anything Greg wants or wishes for, Fetch will make it come true. He'll bring Greg his favorite snacks and get him his dream lab partner, but all is not as it seems as Fetch's requests start to take a more sinister turn.
  
  This is exactly the kind of story I expect from the FNaF universe and I love it! Aside from some silly moments that I can definitely overlook, Fetch is a creepy take on modern technology. The ending of this story seemed abrupt and while I wish we could have had some follow up on Greg's story, the thought of this animal dragging a girl's lifeless body into a young boy's house and leaving it for him as a prize is bone chilling and was a perfect climax to this story!
  
  Lonely Freddy: 2 stars
  
  "A panicky feeling began to rise in his chest. I just need to get outside, he thought I need some air. But breathing wasn't his problem. Moving was.
  
  He tried to extend his leg to stand, but nothing happened. He wanted to push his palm to the floor to brace himself, but he couldn't."
  
  Alec has always resented his little sister, Hazel, for being the perfect daughter while he is stuck as the troublemaker son. When he overhears his parents talking about testing out another new parenting method to "fix" him, Alec decides to give them exactly what they asked for and become the perfect son they always wanted. After a few strangely normal and nice conversations with Hazel, Alec comes up with a plan that his sister surprisingly goes along with. On the days up until Hazel's precious birthday party that their parents had spent an enormous amount of time and money on, Alec and Hazel decide to switch roles. Hazel will be the problematic, back-talking, and rude child while Alec will be polite, calm and helpful, all to throw off their parents; because Hazel is sick of living up to being perfect and Alec doesn't always want to be a disappointment. What could go wrong?
  
  Blahhhh.
  
  So far this was both the least creepy and most boring story of the Fazbear Frights collection. The lead up to the twist was far too long and the ending left me kind of confused if I'm honest. After finding the "Lonely Freddy" animatronics at Hazel's birthday party, Alec learns that parents can rent them for their children so they don't have to play alone. Alec follows one of the robots into a staff room of the pizzeria and finds himself faced with a Lonely Freddy and suddenly unable to move, somehow the robot switches minds (I think?) with Alec and steals his body. As the robot goes back to Alec's parents in his own skin, Alec is left in a locked box with other Lonely Freddy toys that hold the minds of other lost children. This one was just a little too weird for me and I felt the story could have gone in so many other directions, but I'm still giving it two stars because despite not really enjoying it I love this series as a whole and it was at least a quick read.
  
  Out of Stock: 4 stars
  
  ""Um, is it just me or do the teeth look wrong?" Isaac pointed at the straight, slightly yellow human-looking teeth that were visible through Plushtrap's partly open mouth.
  
  "No doubt about it. They look...real."
  
  "They look"- he swallowed - "human.""
  
  Oscar along with his friends Raj and Isaac have been waiting what seems like forever for the new Plushtrap Chaser toy to be released and the day has finally come. The boys decide to meet at the toy store after school, but upon arrival their hearts drop as all the Plushtraps have been sold out at every store. Searching high and low, Oscar and his friends find the last store with the toy in stock and join the large line of people. Getting closer and closer to the register the group of friends overhear a heated exchange between employees about a returned Plushtrap that can't be resold. When the last toy from the store gets bought and the employees tell everyone in line to go home, Oscar makes a quick decision. Darting behind the counter he grabs the returned toy and runs out of the store. Somehow he gets away from mall security and finally has the toy he's been waiting for in his room. Oscar, Raj and Isaac open the toy and are disheartened when it doesn't work, but upon closer look, they realize the Plushtrap Chaser is more sinister than advertised.
  
  Oh my gosh, this is one of those stories that takes you a moment to fathom the horror, but once you do it's unshakeable. Human eyes and teeth have been ripped out and implanted into a children's toy, I mean how messed up is that? The toy inevitably comes to life and tries to kill and eat these kids and it chases them through a blackout. There were some moments in this story that literally had my palms sweating, like when the toy shut down in the middle of a doorway and Oscar, Isaac and Raj had to sneak past it before it woke up. Although, something that struck me as odd with this story is that it happens to be the first happy ending of the Fazbear Frights series and I must admit (creepily enough) that I was mildly disappointed about this! But readers got a bit more insight to the fate of the Plushtrap Chaser in the short chapter at the end of this book.
  
  Just like in the first book, there were a few pages after the three initial stories and while readers still seem to be in the dark to the underlying bigger picture, the next novels will undoubtedly unfold the deeper and darker mystery and I can't wait to put all the puzzle pieces together! Only a few more months until 1:35AM!
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  Dylan

  I really liked this book it's the same as the last book, it gives you 3 short horror stories set in the Fnaf universe, and gives you part 2/6 of The tale of the Stitchwraith. The first story is called Fetch, it's about a boy who discovers a robot dog who is programmed to do everything his master tells him to do. The second story is called Lonely Freddy which is my favorite out of the bunch, it's about a boy named Alec who hates his little sister named Hazel because his parents adore her way more then they do him and he is willing to do anything to best her. The third story called Out of Stock is about a boy named Oscar who always gets the short end of the stick, everytime he wants a toy or a video game from a store they are always sold out and he never gets it. Well, this time he is able to get a toy, but how desperate is he...? And finally we get to the Tale of the Stitchwraith which is still following the detective as he looks for leads on the case.
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  guille

  What a bummer, the first story *Fetch* was really really good. My favorite so far. But the other ones? Huge meh.
  I’ll take a short break from the series, I’m somehow not in the mood rn. Recs are accepted 🥺
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  Shiara_reads

  I love Fetch! Good boy :)
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  Koilee

  A friend recommended this to me and I figured it would be below my reading level and possibly even boring, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't know whether it deserves a 4/5 or a 5/5. I liked the last two short stories 100 times better than the first one. This was a great introduction to the fnaf series for me.
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  Anne

  2.5 🌟
  I liked this one better than the first one, but I’m still not sure if these stories are proper additions to the game series. I love the FNAF universe so I’ll probably pick up the rest anyway.
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  Said González

  4
  Me gustó más de lo que me esperaba.
  
  Son tres relatos cortos inspirados en el mundo de Five Nigths at Freddy's (un videojuego de terror donde básicamente tienes que sobrevivir al ataque de animatrónicos, o sea, robots con rasgos de animales que intentan quitarte la vida), evidentemente el mundo y las referencias a este videojuego son muy presentes y como fan se disfruta bastante.
  
  El primer relato (llamado Busca) en lo personal es mi favorito, aquí conocemos a tres amigos que entran a una pizzería abandonada y encuentran a Busca, un animatrónico con forma de perro que sirve como premio, el cuál puedes sincronizar con el celular, total, el animatrónico malinterpreta todas las cosas y misteriosos crímenes empiezan a ocurrir. Sin duda siento que fue muy irónico lo que sucedió.
  
  El segundo (llamado Lonely Freddy) es bueno, tratado de un niño que quiere "sacar a la luz" la verdadera actitud de su hermana, haciendo muchas cosas mal. A la hermana le quieren celebrar el cumpleaños en la pizzería y ahí existen unos Freddys que puedes darles a los "niños mal portados", el relato tiene un plot un poco intenso y wow con el final.
  
  Por último, el relato (llamado Sin Existencia) es el que cuenta con mayor referencia del videojuego, ya que sale a la venta un plushtrap, una especie de conejo que se vuelve inmediatamente popular en todo el mundo. Al llegar a la tienda, los protagonistas no consiguen su Plushtrap, pero encuentran uno que fue regresado debido a que hacía movimientos extraños. Total que sufren muchas cosas y estuvo muy ok. No fue mi favorito, pero lo que me gustó fue que este muñeco es un minijuego que puedes hacer en el canon de los videojuegos de FNaF.
  
  Para ser unos relatos inspirados en un videojuego es muy bueno.
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  burnie

  Fetch: Ending was super open which isn't always a bad thing, but come on I want some gory shit from a Five Nights at Freddy's short story. Bloody sheets just aren't gonna do it for me. The concept of an AI with the intent to please the owner, without realizing and adhering to moral boundaries or even plotting to do it maliciously in the first place, is one of the more interesting concepts that's been introduced throughout the franchise.
  
  Lonely Freddy: Kind of forgot that this was a short story from the FNAF franchise, because, similar to some of the other stories at times, the narrative about the creepy animatronics haunted by dead children murdered by a purple man takes a back seat in order to give the attention to whatever angsty "unloved" child is the protagonist. The latter half of the story was solid, the idea of the consciousness swap was interesting, and the dynamic of Alec and Hazel had the potential to be really cool. The horror felt a bit more gimmicky? I don't know, it felt really slow the majority of the time which caused Alec's character development to really drag.
  
  Out of Stock: Having a protagonist who is able to have a somewhat clear idea of who they are and what their place in life is, makes the story a lot more readable. Sure, still an emotional 12 year old kid, but the relationships with his mum and his friends felt more compelling and real rather than having a parent there for the sake of having a parent character. Plushtrap felt a bit underutilized, and the story did suffer for it slightly by feeling like the shortest of the three.
  
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  szara

  While I did like the first volume of Fazbear Frights as a part of a franchise I'm into and the spooks, volume two was much more enjoyable as a collection of short stories in general. I really liked the writing, the pacing, and the construction of characters in this one. All of the stories had me hooked quite quickly and I liked them till the end, but overall "Lonely Freddy" is my favourite out of all Fazbear Frights stories in general! The main character was a great narrator for this since and the emotional conflict had me really invested – and the ending gave me chills. Looking forward to the next installment in the series.
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  Warren Hall

  Fetch:
  
  A 14 year old named Greg finds himself and some friends in an abandoned pizza place. He finds a toy dog there, it becomes attached to him, does stuff for him, both good and bad.
  
  The story doesn't make much sense. Fetch not only knows Greg's wants, but somehow watches his movements. If this is the case, and Fetch decided to take Darrin's finger, the question of why he didn't also bring money is questionable. Fetch is not controlled like one controls a drone strike, he must make decisions on how to pick and choose particular things that he fetches, so why he chose the finger and not the money, when the money was foremost in mind and the *cause* of the desire for the finger, seems rather backward. Was Greg simply more people-focused? Was his desires idle? Or is Fetch evil?
  
  Kimberly's death seems even more strange. Can Greg not abort a mission, can he thoughts about protecting Kimberly not penetrate Fetch's mind? And, further, this type of thing isn't done by Fetch coherently. Manuel, desired by Greg, is not killed; when Greg desires his friends Hadi and Cyril, the both of them are not mauled and carried to his room, and Greg must take days to text them into doing what he wants. And, if we may say that Fetch understood what Greg wanted Hadi and Cyril to do, then we must also think that Fetch understood what Greg wanted to do with Kimberly: work with her later on their project.
  
  With the apparent death of Kimberly, we could say that Fetch has gone berserk: he wants revenge on Greg, I guess, and instead of killing his friends who Fetch has watched interact with him for days, or going to put the final blow on Darrin his stand-in father, he decides on the girl he loves for some reason, even though in real terms, their connection cannot be as strong as the connection with the others, for he has just begun to start talking to her. In that sense, then, Fetch wants to kill an innocent, but not an innocent to the story--for Darrin is innocent, of course--but an innocent to the reader, someone who is barely within the work and has characteristics most like Greg's than anybody else: Kimberly.
  
  I suppose I didn't like this story. The message is probably good, however, for the whole point of the story--the ability to wield almost unlimited power through mental suggestion alone, like when he forced a situation in which he and Kimberly are put together in a group--seems inherently evil to me. It is coercion without coercion, it is attaching strings to others' and using them as puppets with them knowing you have done so; and, hence, it seems to treat people as if the were lifeless, as if they were nothing but ragdolls, and abuse of such a power is probably inevitable. The story cannot help but, therefore, corrupt Greg's desires through the use of Fetch, for Fetch is too easy, and Fetch is power if only he functioned as a better slave than he is capable of. Fetch is like Greg's plants but functionally capable of being controlled but not capable enough for comfort, so that what Greg learns, ultimately, is his own stupidity--that it is just too dangerous to mess around with this type of stuff, that some things must be kept in the closet (or, in this case, cubby hole)--yet that message, I feel, fails to hit a bull's-eye by not showing that the power Greg wants is itself disgusting.
  
  Lonely Freddy:
  
  Alec is a Dunning-Krueger. He doesn't know his sister, he doesn't know his parents, he doesn't know his life, and he doesn't know his own feelings; however, because he knows only a little about them, and has an internal agenda far stupider than most people, and thereby he thinks himself all-knowing and is entirely too suspicious of things that go against his pre-thought thoughts. Like any Dunning-Krueger, he also hates it when people denigrate his clearly inferior intelligence.
  
  The story is mainly about his experience of his life and about his sister. He considers her faux-perfect, a creature that dissembles her true personality. His parents treat her as a princess, because she acts like one, and therefore he is angry; he feels his life is unfair, and even owns that he thinks himself uncared for (quite ironic, one must say). One day, this sister (Hazel) helps him get back at his parents, and a relationship slowly buds between them--a relationship filled with suspicious on one side (we all know whose).
  
  By the end, a party occurs in which Hazel wins a Yarg Foxy that he really wanted and associated with her being 'spoiled'. He tried to rig it but failed, making him incredibly angry; he raves, and she gives him the toy (of course). This results in his eventual destruction of his idiotic idea, too bad he is condemned to die a long and painful death as a toy in the trash. (Although he rages first.)
  
  In double irony, Alec refuses to believe his sister and turns into a Lonely Freddy, giving his lonely sister (who only wants his love) that which she desires--a companion--and putting him into the position that he always thought he was in: outside the family fold.
  
  Also: Alec is like 15 and Hazel is like a 10 year old, how in the world does he have his particular prejudices?
  
  Out of Stock:
  
  This is a rather simple story about taking life into your own hands--as the old man who serves as a pseudo-father-figure says, one day you've got to stop farming and harvest. It is one of the more suspenseful stories in the book, too.
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  Paula

  I had to know: actually scary? underestimated? I mean you never know- people I respect have had a ball writing Minecraft novels, and the Plants vs Zombies comics are fun!
  But no, this is nonsense. A little scary? But poorly drawn and lazily plotted.
  So there you go, I did that for you. Should you buy it for your library? Absolutely. But hand them some Goosebumps once they’re finished with this clickbait.
  
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  Bastian Skogli

  All the stories were on par with eachother this time and I felt a general spooky vibe thru the whole thing. The second story in particular is very good and I would recommend any fnaf fan checking it out
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  zonya

  AMAZING!!! I love this book, I finished it in a day! But I would really like if the person who wrote all these fnaf books would stop. giving. cliiff. hangers. 🥲
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  Autumn

  Even though I've only read the first two books in the series, this is my favorite. The stories were addicting and lived rent free in my head when I wasn't reading. I highly recommend this book if you're fan of FNAF or just a fan of short horror stories with fantastical elements.
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  Jun

  No sabía muy bien qué estilo de historia iba a a encontrar, para mi sorpresa fueron bastante entretenidas y diferentes a lo que yo esperaba.
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  Daria

  Takie 3,5... 3,75?
  
  Muszę przyznać, że język był tu dla mnie trudniejszy w porównaniu z pierwszą częścią i musiałam dużo dużo więcej siedzieć w tłumaczu. Nie umiem też powiedzieć, czy Fetch jest lepszy niż Into the Pit – jak dla mnie obie raczej trzymają poziom. Jest tak samo niespodziewanie dość makabrycznie i… zadziwiająco przygnębiająco. Ale dalej bawiłam się świetnie na tych historiach.
  
  Fetch – Greg wraz z kolegami włamują się do opuszczonej pizzerii i znajdują tam animatronika o wyglądzie psa (tak, to ten z okładki) o imieniu Fetch. Okazuje się, że jest on w stanie zsynchronizować się z telefonem i pomagać w różnych rzeczach, a Gregowi udaje się go przypadkiem uruchomić, po czym zaczyna on otrzymywać od robota wiadomości. Fetch jednak traktuje wszelkie prośby dosłownie. Bardzo dosłownie. Nawet niekoniecznie wtedy, gdy się czegoś faktycznie od niego chciało.
  
  I tym razem opowiadanie tytułowe jest moim ulubionym z tej części. Właściwie jego zaletą i wadą jest to, że jest w formie opowiadania. Im bardziej się rozkręca, tym staje się bardziej przerażające, a my tylko obserwujemy, jak Greg tonie po uszy w wiadomo czym. To byłby naprawdę fajny motyw pod większą historię.
  
  Lonely Freddy – Alec jest chłopcem, który uchodzi w rodzinie za czarną owcę i ma generalnie lekkie problemy z postrzeganiem granicy dobra i zła, a rodzice załamują nad nim ręce. I ma młodszą siostrę – Hazel, którą nazywa ‘’golden sister’’. Która dostaje zawsze to, czego chce, która ma dużo przyjaciół, która jest tą dobrą w domu. Pewnego dnia, na parę dni przed imprezą urodzinową Hazel w pizzerii, rodzeństwo postanawia zamienić się rolami, gdzie tym razem to Alec ma być tym dobrym dzieckiem, a Hazel złym. Brat jednak wyczuwa w tym spisek siostry i pragnie ją zdemaskować podczas jej urodzin. W pizzerii jednak znajdują się poruszające się po budynku animatroniki z dziwnym błyskiem w oku.
  
  To opowiadanie chyba najbardziej zadziało na moje uczucia spośród w ogóle wszystkich (łącznie ze zbiorem z pierwszej części). Jeszcze się tak właściwie nie pogodziłam z zakończeniem, które pozostawiło mnie w takim stanie lekkiego przygnębienia, a Alecowi miałam ochotę czasem strzelić, chociaż go (i Hazel) naprawdę polubiłam.
  
  Out of Stock – Oscar to chłopiec, którego aktualnym pragnieniem, oraz jego dwójki przyjaciół, jest zdobycie zabawki Plushtrapa. Jednak nie ma do tego szczęścia, bo sprzedaż zaczyna się w momencie, gdy jest w szkole, a potem musi pomóc swojej mamie w domu opieki przy jednym z pacjentów. Natomiast gdy ma czas zdążyć ją gdzieś kupić, okazuje się, że została już tylko w jednym sklepie. Oscar jest zdesperowany ją zdobyć, nawet jeśli z tym jednym egzemplarzem coś jest ewidentnie nie tak.
  
  Akurat to opowiadanie uważam za trochę niewykorzystany potencjał i za najsłabsze również spośród wszystkich dotychczas wydanych, mimo mojej bardzo dużej sympatii do głównych bohaterów, ich silnej przyjaźni i mimo tego, że nawet się czasem uśmiechn��łam. Spodziewałam się chyba jakiegoś większego plot twistu, a tutaj właściwe łatwo przewidzieć, co nastąpi (nic też wielkiego nie dzieje się w między czasie), może oprócz tego, jak bohaterowie postanowią rozwiązać problem. Przez to też całe opowiadanie mi się dłużyło.
  
  Mimo że trzecie opowiadanie popsuło mi trochę odbiór całości, to jednak dwa pierwsze bardzo przypadły mi do gustu.
  
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  Emily-kasandra Cliche

  This was the best one of the Fazbear Frights book out of the first 3!
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  nick

  **spoiler-free review, spoilered content in comments**
  
  definitely a good read! i really enjoy the various stories and getting to view some of the lore. i’ve played through all of the games so it’s just very fun to find extra stories about the animatronics. i also really like that not every kid ends up dead at the end of each story :’) glad for this to be my first finished read of 2023!
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  Sea Bunny Voyager

  Ooohkayyy made it through the next one. And I’m happy to report I think I liked it just a little bit more than the first one. Which is saying something when you’re reading a book based on a video game universe, because you never quite know what you’re gonna get.
  
  This one follows the same formula as all the others, three stories with…what else? Strange robotic shenanigans and a pizza parlor. The formula may feel like it can’t really lead to a diversity of situations, but I’m over here still amazed by what it has led to, three more forays about kids/young adults coming to terms with themselves and meeting up with supernatural events clearly outside their scope/trying to survive them. Oh and then the detective story, but more on that in a second.
  
  The three stories were:
  
  Fetch: A boy and his dog, how wonderful. (Was not expecting the aside about quantum mechanics and REGs, but hey, I’m reading these things for enjoyment and I certainly got my money’s worth right out of the gate with this one. Also, it has a reference to a 1940s musical and knitting, I had fun with that.)
  
  Lonely Freddy: Kid with what is probably antisocial personality disorder tries to figure out how humans work. (Our main dude goes through so much growth in this story I’m gonna have to list it as a fav of mine so far. The feelings I had toward him at the beginning kept twisting all over the place throughout. The ending was a ride.)
  
  Out of Stock: Group of young dudes confronts a Plushtrap, and have a time. (This one had a bittersweet feel. It dealt with some more mature topics, such as parent death and the aftermath. I like that in my kid’s fiction, stuff that makes you think a little.)
  
  The epilogue story: detective Larson is still being detective Larson. That is all. (Sometimes I’m a bit confused about the target audience for these books. The parts with the detective, while I enjoy them, often read as more adult than what I was expecting. Solid effort though, I wanna know what happens next).
  
  So overall, fun read!
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  Sophi

  I love this book! I would recommend reading the first book before this one, but the thrilling plots of the story’s and the twists are amazing! For example, at the end of fetch when Greg found the bloody sheet, of.. who knows what? It was really an interesting twist and motivated me to read more of this series. Scott, you did amazing! ❤️
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  Tristan

  De tweede Fazbear Frights collectie en ik denk dat dit m’n favoriet is van de twee so far:
  - Fetch 4/5
  - Lonely Freddy 4,5/5
  - Out of Stock 4/5
  
  Fetch is natuurlijk de main story van deze collectie en hij was echt heel goed. Het idee van een hond die deze dingen doet, vond heel tof. Ik vond de text messages iets minder omdat ze zo gek geschreven waren lol. Veel moord ook in deze.
  
  Lonely Freddy begon iets minder voor me maar was uiteindelijk heel goed. Ik haatte gewoon het idee van Alec die z’n zusje haatte omdat hij denkt dat ze alles doet om tegen hem in te gaan. Het is zo duidelijk dat ze gewoon wilt dat Alec haar leuk vindt en dat beseft hij later ook. Ik vond het ook wel tof dat deze niet heel veel gekke animatronic dingen bevatte, behalve aan het einde natuurlijk. Het einde van deze vond ik het heftigst. Je ziet echt hoe Alec ineens een kleine Freddy wordt en hoe hij een nep versie van zichzelf ziet. Stel je voor dat we in een wereld leven waar deze verhalen echt kunnen zijn en dan overkomt je dat... mij niet gezien.
  
  Out of Stock was vrij goed. Ik vond vooral het laatste gedeelte met echt de actie heel tof. Begin was iets minder en ik vond de scène in het tehuis met die enge man wel weer heel goed. Deze was wel de enigste met echt actie doordat Plushtrap ze echt achtervolgt en het einde was heel clever.
  
  Het leuke aan deze verhalen is dat ze echt allemaal iets anders brengen. Fetch meer spannend van een afstand. Lonely Freddy vooral een heel sad en heftig einde. Out of Service hele spannende actie scènes.
  Daarnaast is het goeie aan dit boek, en deze serie, dat het zowel zo onrealistisch maar daarbij alsnog heel realistisch is? De events kunnen niet echt gebeuren doordat het gewoon ‘magical’ is, for a lack of a better word, maar als die dingen in het echt bestonden dan zouden deze verhalen zo eng zijn. En daardoor zijn ze alsnog vet eng in my opinion.
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  Maxine

  Since I enjoyed the first book of the series, I decided to go ahead and try out the second book.
  
  Of the stories in this collection, I really didn't enjoy the titular story, "Fetch." I liked the main character and the primary story (a boy named Greg awakens a robot dog that proceeds to 'fetch' things for him, taking his instructions a little too literally), but the story felt like the author/s were trying to tell multiple stories at once and it just wasn't working. The story also ends really abruptly - not like an open-ended cliffhanger, but like the author/s just... stopped writing it partway through the closing scene. The whole time I felt like there were somehow three different stories happening at once in "Fetch" (the story of Greg and the robo-dog, the story of Greg's family, and the story of Greg's experiences with REGs) but that they didn't really go together, leaving the story with a cluttered, unfinished feel to it.
  
  However, I really loved the second and third stories, "Lonely Freddy" and "Out of Stock!" Both are well written, and could have been episodes of a 'Twilight Zone'-esque series, in my opinion (and I would watch the *heck* out of a show version of "Out of Stock").
  
  Again, I would definitely recommend this series to young readers who want to explore the horror genre, or anyone who (like myself) just wants to explore the greater world of FNAF.
  
  And, because this is a FNAF book and this is how this franchise works,
  click here to read my notes and theory fodder over on tumblr, as I parse out what the stories are telling us about the overall world and lore. Warning for spoilers.
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  Kim

  This collection wasn't as good as the first, but it's still worth a read.
  
  Story 1, "Fetch" - This one was fine. There's a couple cringey moments when "modern" slang is used which was distracting. I liked the main character. He was a young teen boy who had different interests than normally portrayed in books so it was refreshing. My main complaint with this one is it's one of those sorta cliffhanger endings with some loose ends that didn't get tied up. Overall, still a decent story.
  
  Story 2 - This didn't feel like it fit as FNAF related things wasn't brought in until the very end. The first 80% was pretty much about the main character and his family dilemmas. Definitely the weakest of the collection and could easily be skipped if you're looking to be creeped out and/or see FNAF content.
  
  Story 3 - This was probably my favorite one since a FNAF character was brought in early on so throughout the story there was always the suspense of wondering when things would go wrong.
  
  One of my biggest issues with the whole collection is it felt like the morals were being shoved down my throat. I know the target audience is kids, but they're smart enough to understand without it being beat over their heads. The first book had moral lessons, but they were a little more subtle.
  
  Overall I did enjoy the collection, but not as much as the first. I'll still read the 3rd one because the world is interesting.
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  Jay Big Cat

  Another three short stories in the FNAF universe, none of them exceptionally great but the potential is there. I enjoyed Fetch except for it's ending, the second story was boring for the most part but if the characters show back up...the third story was pretty good and definitely reminded me of the Chucky franchise.
  1. Fetch 3***; some kids explore an old pizzeria and find a creepy out of place animatronic that syncs with one of their phones and becomes his assistant
  2. Lonely Freddie 1.5*; A story of a troubled kid who thinks his sister trying to pull a fast one on him, very drawn out
  3. Out of stock 3***; some other kids want the newest toy, a miniature animatronic bunny that chases you around, one of the kids snags a defective one from the back of the store...