Welcome to Horror Hospital (Choose Your Own Nightmare, #16) by Laban Carrick Hill

Welcome to Horror Hospital (Choose Your Own Nightmare, #16) Reviews

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  Victor Diaz Magallon

  Algo así como los Escalofríos de R. L. Stein, pero con finales alternativos. Es muy confortable leer este tipo de historias de hospital cuando uno esta en rehabilitación.
  
  El Hospital del Terror es un relato de horror para niños y jóvenes, con la posibilidad de cambiar la estructura y el final de la historia.
  
  RECOMENDABLE SI:
  - Gustas del terror para niños.
  
  - Te gustan las portadas con sexis enfermeras.
  
  - Te gustan los relatos con finales alternativos.
• 
  Nader Nate

  6.5/10
  it has Only 2 bad endings
  2 bittersweet
  5 Good ending
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  Sarah Hayes

  Loved it read it in middle school
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  Josiah

  This really is a very good book. Author Laban Carrick Hill uses the choice-making format with an excellent array of skill and creativity, and the story is surprisingly intense for a book of its size. I'm sure that many young readers already have a sense of fear about the hospital anyway, and Welcome to Horror Hospital capitalizes on this inert phobia very well. Of course, not many people would like the idea of being taken to a medieval-looking hospital and treated by a black-toothed doctor named Frank N. Stein who appears and acts none too trustworthy, but you do have the choice as to how strongly you will resist. Push hard enough at the points of decision against this suspicious medical establishment and you will find ways to escape to freedom, where you can convalesce in safety at home (following a satisfying End, of course). If you are willing to take your chances a bit more in "Horror Hospital", however, you'll find some intriguing and suspenseful storylines that should make for really interesting reading. If you're smart and have some luck on your side, you'll also have a good chance of reaching a positive End.
  
  I like the setup of this book. For some readers the story threads might seem a bit cluttered and confusing, but Welcome to Horror Hospital will bring a lot of excitement to young readers who like this kind of tense, personally involving narrative. It seemed to me that I felt a little bit more relief than usual when I reached a good End in this book. Maybe part of the reason for that, in addition to the convincingly frightening writing and scary plot, is the fact that You are allowed a lot of personal freedom in the story. Rarely do you not have a choice to attempt escape from the hospital if that is what you want to do. As a result, perhaps the peril in which You find yourself feels more real than in most other decision books.
  
  In my thinking, this is one of the better entries in the Choose Your Own Nightmare series, and I would probably give it two and a half stars.
• 
  Colton

  This is another CYON written by Laban Carrick Hill, who has proven to be my favorite writer in the series, delivering lots of solid entries so far. This was surprisingly dark at times, which was appropriate for the story (hospitals are a real fear for many adults as well as children). Hill illustrates that most chilling of fears - losing control of your body to strangers who have the potential to harm you. The story is pretty simple; you get kicked in the head and are wheeled to a hospital with a less-than-stellar record. It seems some of their patients disappear forever. The writing is quality, doing its job and staying out of the way, though I would have liked to see a little more description of scenes. There seemed to be more happy endings than usual, but the bad endings are dark enough to make up for this fact. Especially chilling is a scene in which you receive an impromptu surgery from an escaped psychopath. All in all, a quite solid book I'd recommend.
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  Betty

  good reading for lower grades