I glared angrily at Dr. Gray. "You have to let me go," I insisted in a trembling whisper.His expression softened. "Please don't stare at me like that," he said. "I'm not a bad guy. I don't want to frighten you. And I don't want to keep you in this lab against your will. But what choice do I have? I'm a scientist, Dana. I have to do my job."Yeah, I'm sure your job as a scientist involves kidnapping children, you sick fuck.This Goosebumps book was intense! I couldn't turn the pages fast enough, OMG. I think a big reason for this was because (despite its title) this book was not as silly as Goosebumps usually are and instead focused on a real-life danger - mainly, creeps who kidnap children and then keep them prisoners in their torture bunkers. OMG So scary.And, as Nenia Campbell pointed out, this guy's last name is Gray - which I'm sure we can all agree adds another layer of "ick" to this whole thing!It all starts when 12-year-old Dana Johnson attends his bratty younger sister's 10th birthday party. She wanted an egg hunt. Dana finds the biggest, freakiest egg he's ever seen - it's pale green and covered with throbbing blue and purple veins! It's also very hot to the touch and seemingly indestructible. He takes it home and keeps it in his dresser drawer. He loves science - and especially biology!When the egg creature hatches one morning, Dana is surprised at what comes out. It looks like a blob of runny scrambled eggs, with two little black eyes. He scoops up the creature and puts it in a shoe box. He decides to take it to the local science lab (because every town has one!) and that's where he meets the evil Dr. Gray......Tl;dr - This is a more gripping and realistic entry of Goosebumps than I am used to - and I loved it! Excellent. Even if the final ending is a bit strange - this is Stine we're talking about!
I really loved this one when I was younger. Since it's sort of Easter-y and I met R.L. Stine last Saturday, I decided it might be fun to re-read this. This is probably still one of my favorites. I liked Dana as a character and the whole Easter-egg party was a pretty cool idea. Then there's the egg monsters, who I also thought were cool and the sort of Goosebumps monsters I wouldn't mind meeting. The only thing that made me shake my head in disbelief was the ending. Though to be fair, it's also an ending I'm sure readers won't see coming at all. Reading this was like saying hello again to an old friend!
I love R.L. Stines colection goosebumps and they don't realy scare me but this one gives me the creeps. Like the part were Dana finds a wierd green green egg with purple and blue vains and is the size of a softball. Puts it in his sockdraw and it hatches the next morning. He does not know what it is but its gross and looks like scrambled eggs. Another wierd part is when Dana takes the wierd creature to a sience lab and he finds out that its a martian from mars and since he touched it and knows about it a sientist named Dr.Gray lockes him up. While hes in there he finds out that there are a lot more.
—Sarah C.
I must say, I've always been attracted to the underdog books of the series. Everyone who read Goosebumps as a kid read One Day in Horrorland or the Slappy trilogy, but it seems some books just didn't make the popular reading list. Well, with a name like Egg Monsters from Mars, we're already in dangerous waters. In a scene that mirrors the opening of Eragon, the protagonist finds a strange egg. However, instead of hatching a CGI-animated dragon it hatches... an egg monster. Stuff happens, eventually culminating in the poorly named protagonist Dana being locked inside a giant freezer with a group of the egg creatures who are actually aliens. The bare-bones plot is focused and moves quickly but doesn't change how inane the idea is. As stated, I have a strange affinity for this series despite the less than stellar writing and recurring mediocrity. Rose-colored glasses, I guess. Although, I worked in my school library and always saw kids, boys and girls, checking out Goosebumps. Legends never die; however, this book was never really a legend.
—Colton
So... this is one of the few Goosebumps books I had never read as a kid, so I decided to pick it up on Easter Sunday. (Appropriate, amiright?). While the cover is classic Goosebumps, the story is definitely not. It just wasn't as good as the other books and didn't have enough monster action. It was more of a mad scientist story, which should have been awesome but wasn't. The whole book seemed to be just a build-up to that corny punch-line at the end. Definitely not Stine's best twist ending.FINAL VERDICT: 'Eh'
—Cameron
