Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror #1: Blind Date

This book was amazing. The characters were well developed, you get a sense of the surroundings, and it didn't focus on anything other than the main plot. The basic story is Alicia, one of the most popular girls in school, always takes up for the nerd, Evan. Alicia's seemingly perfect life starts downspiraling when she gets in a mysterious car accident and her friends turn up missing. But this isn't the strange part. Alicia has become blind and must seek the killer. All the while, Evan becomes more obsessive over Alicia. Has he taken his love for Alicia too far? Or is there something more evil behind the gruesome disappearances? Has Freddy finally found the perfect host to slaughter the teens of Elm Street? To find out, you need to read this book. It is a rollercoaster of emotions and you won't be able to put it down!

& lt;P & gt;As a serious thinker and a reader of all forms of literature, I was delighted to see this brilliant work in a genre which has been insulted and degraded by many (Teen Horror). Mr. Richards has not only brought new dignity to this book form, but has taken a worn-out character (Freddy Krueger) and taken him to whole new levels and dimensions. & lt;P & gt;This book may seem at first glance to focus on Alicia, the cheerleader who is driven blind by a car accident, but working on a more deep, subtle level, The story revolves around Evan, the tortured "nerd". And what Mr.Richards is trying to show here is that the villian is not Freddy, but is the group of "popular kids" who persist in torturing Evan. In this, he proves that the villian is not always the hideous ghoul, but is sometimes the (at least physically) real human. & lt;P & gt; I have never known a writer in this genre to work on so many levels in a novel. Other authors, whom I certainly respect simply for having the patie