Give Yourself Goosebumps: The Spin-off Series to the Original Goosebumps by R. L. Stine

is a master at writing spooky novel for young readers especially teenagers who enjoy tales about monsters, ghosts, werewolves, and curses. The Goosebumps series is Mr. Stine's greatest collection of spooky stories that tell different tales about teenage curse, monsters that lurks in the closet, friend that became werewolves, or even places that are paranormal to our very own. Although, the actual Goosebumps series are great stories in themselves, many reader had never thought that they are in for the greatest chill of their lives. Not only did the Goosebumps series is spooky enough for the average readers but Stine himself had created a spin-off stories that put the readers into the role of his very own Goosebumps world, that's how the series Give Yourself Goosebumps was born and how it process.

Unlike the actual Goosebumps series, where each story is a different kind of spooky story itself, the Give Yourself Goosebumps (GYG) series; however, tell a different story. Not only will the reader read through the story but the readers themselves is also a part of the story. Each story in the GYG series narrated the story in the second perspective with the reader as the main ongoing character to the story. When reader begin to read, they will come across a decision somewhere in the middle of a page or chapter where they will had to make a decision for example if a reader is a teenage boy who just came back from a party, sometime the will be a decision in the middle of the chapter that said if you still want to stay in the party continue on or if you want to go home go to page 45 or something. With these kind of decisions, the role of the reader will come to a completely different conclusion depending on the many choices they make. Sometime it take more than one decision to reach the end, other times the end could come so soon that will make the readers want to start from the very beginning.

As the book stated, the GYG series features twenty different spooky endings and to reach those endings depend on the readers. It's very creative that R. L. Stine created such a massive collection of thoughts, events, and decisions and link them on how the reader process. As reader ourselves, it almost felt as if we are a part of the story as well since the story are in the second perspective. One downside to this though is that since it is only in the second perspective, sometimes other scenes or event in the book kind of not make any sense unless you try to understand Stine's word of fantasy. It would have been better if Stine wrote these stories in the first perspective, I am sure that would be even more spooky than in the second where all you read if always you all the time, it feels like you are the narrator more than you are the character. As creative as this series could be, the whole feelings of getting the chill is still there and having to choose from over twenty different spooky endings is a surprise any readers won't want to bypassed.