Book Review - Tom A

Five Nights at Freddy's The Twisted Ones by Scott Cawthon 

In the Twisted Ones book, Charlie, who is around 20 years old, is trying to overcome the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza the year before. She, John, Marla and Jessica, Charlie's best friends, try to discover the secrets of patterned murders happening around town, including one that looks like Charlie herself!

 She travels to her old house and finds some dug up ground in her back garden. She and John dig up the pile of dirt and discover the animatronic shell of a fox, but it didn't look like the well known Foxy the Pirate Fox, it looked different. As she is examining the shell of the robot, a strange ringing in her ears begins to give her a headache. She looks away and looks back and the suit had sprung to life and grabbed her by the throat, lifting her off the ground. She thought she would die when John hit it round the head and punched in the chest. But as he did that, a disc flew out of the suit and landed in the grass. Charlie felt around for it, then when she actually found it, she noticed a strange red flashing light near the edge of disc. Her head still throbbing, she felt around for any other secrets on it when she noticed a small switch. She flicked the switch and her headache suddenly stopped. She flicked it again and the ringing in her ears and headache came back and the suit sprung to life again. She quickly flicked it again and the suit stopped right in front of Charlie and fell backwards. She and John head back to her car and mark out all the murders that happened on the map. The people, or things, that killed the people were travelling in a straight line and were heading towards the house of one of the people that had been murdered. So she decides to head to the house. She tells her friends Dad, who is a police officer, what she had found out so Officer Burke gave her the keys to the house so she could rest there and try to find out what they wanted. She gets to the house and lies in the bed in the upstairs bedroom when a dreaded thought comes across her, what if what they want, is her. She tried to sleep but she couldn't. She finally got close to drifting off when a loud thud was heard and the ringing in her ears returned. The bedroom door opened and a Freddy like creature rose up onto the bed and ate her alive! She then wakes up inside the bear costume in the ground. She found out how to open the suit and dig herself free. Charlie found herself in a maze full of the creatures that she was just inside of. When she thought they would kill her when the animatronics from the last location came and fought the ones that were going to kill Charlie. She made a run for it through a giant maze when she got confronted by the Purple Guy. This time she couldn't escape and got killed by being stuffed into a suit and being squashed alive.

As mentioned before, the main characters are Charlie, Officer Burke, John, Marla and Jessica. I felt that I got to know each of the characters really well through the book and got a great picture of what they looked like in my mind. My favourite character was John because he had a really good sense of humour like me and I felt I would get on with him if I actually knew him. The characters were all friends but Charlie and John started to date.

I felt it was a great and thrilling story because I was on the edge of my seat the entire time of reading this. It made me feel engaged in the book the entire time reading this. This book is the second in a trilogy of three and at this very moment in time I am on the final book in the trilogy called The Fourth Closet. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes nerve wracking horror stories.