Lea’s problems don’t stop at the creepy old house.
Like what kind of murdered ghost am I going to be dealing with and is that worth the ungodly amount of money I’m putting down? Maybe it was the booming 90s housing market, but I can’t imagine buying a house without finding out what was inside the secret bedroom attic first. And that’s with the knowledge that a person was rumored to have been murdered in that house 100 years earlier. And for some reason, her parents and the realtor are not pressed at all to see what’s inside. There’s a boarded-up bedroom in the attic that’s totally not suspicious or creepy at all. Her parents also love fixing up old houses, and so of course they bought a run-down old house on Fear Street.
This is hard on Lea because she’s shy and doesn’t make new friends easily. She’s had to move every few years her whole life because of her dad’s job. The Secret Bedroom, while not perfect, made for one of the more interesting books in the Fear Street series so far. Overall, I liked this more than I didn’t. There were a few glaring holes that the plot that the otherwise solid story relied on, like why the hell wasn’t Lea’s parents more interested in the boarded-up bedroom in their attic? I also had some spoiler-laced questions about how a few things happened. The blending of supernatural elements with petty high school bullshit was a nice touch, and it made for a pretty brutal death scene. Her love interest Don was believably spineless. Lea’s high school drama felt relatable, although her enemy Marci felt a tad over the top. The plot builds slowly in a way that I enjoyed, with the creepy old house setting the perfect atmosphere for building that kind of tension. The Secret Bedroom ticks all the right boxes on this point. Those were the ones that got in my head, under my skin, and occasionally into my nightmares.
Fear Street #13: The Secret Bedroom Spoiler-Free Reviewįor me, the scariest Fear Street books were always the supernatural ones.
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