When twins Lindy and Kris find a ventriloquist’s dummy in a Dumpster, Lindy decides to “rescue” it, and she names it Slappy. But Kris is green with envy. It’s not fair. Why does Lindy get to have all the fun and all the attention? Kris decides to get a dummy of her own. She’ll show Lindy. Then weird things begin to happen. Nasty things. Evil things. It can’t be the dummy causing all the trouble, Can it?

When I was a kid I loved Goosebumps TV shows, which of course made me read this book and start the adventure with this book series. 

I really wanted to rate this book high, but I just couldn’t because there were a lot of things that didn’t go well with me when it comes to this book.

One of my main problems with this book is the 2 main characters. Which are Lindy and Kris which are twins and 12 years of age. Every time we get both of them in the same scene in this book they are arguing about something or making a challenge about who of them is better at the thing they are doing. 

And if they aren’t together, they complain about each other to their friends. Which really made me so bored. It was like the main problem in this book was that the twins hated each other. And the spooky dummies which came to life was just a side plot.

The plot here was okay, but it could have been better if the twins weren’t arguing all the time, pulling rude pranks at each other or just complain about each other. It felt like I was reading a drama book about twins hating each other rather than a horror book.

May second problem with this book is the parents. They blame Kris for everything when Lindy is seen as the golden child to the parents. Which really made me angry because Lindy made much worse things than Kris but the parents decided to blame Kris for it rather than Lindy.

I Give This Book 3 / 5