(The only remaining mystery from the book is the symbolism of the white monkey head. There was a lot going on in Missing and none of it made sense until the end everything is, thankfully, resolved in the end, unlike what I remembered. Compounding each mystery is the fact they recently moved to Shadyside (to a house on Fear Street, of course) and have almost no support system. Also, Mark’s girlfriend suddenly breaks up with him and is sent “upstate” to stay with her cousin. Exacerbating their worries, they drive to their parents’ workplace to find that there is no record of their parents working there. They become suspicious of a distant cousin, Roger, who lives in their attic and little mysteries begin to pile up: their parents left the car in the garage, Roger is sneaking out in the middle of the night, a gray van is parked near their house, and Mark and Cara find a small, white monkey head with rhinestone eyes in their parents’ room. When they do not come home the next day, Mark and Cara begin to worry. However, they did not leave a note or call. Their parents had worked through the night before so it was no big deal. When their parents do not return from work one night, Mark and Cara do not think much of it. Thankfully, the book turned out to be much better than I remembered. It pissed me off and was one of the reasons I decided to read Missing first I wanted to get it out of the way. In the end they wander off to nowhere in particular as orphans. The lives of the two main characters are turned upside down when their parents disappear and everyone they know treats them like strangers. From what I could remember, nothing was resolved in the end.

Though I remember nothing about most of my Fear Street novellas, I do recall being very disappointed with Missing it was the one Fear Street book I did not like. However, both turned out to be very enjoyable.Įspecially surprising was Missing. I picked Missing and The Secret Bedroom to be my latest Fear Street rereads because both, based on their titles and cover art, looked to be the dumbest. As she stared in openmouthed horror, all three ghostly figures melted together in a glowing, malodorous ball of flame, which slowly vanished in a choking cloud of yellow, sulfurous smoke. When the scream faded away Lea opened her eyes.

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