You can have a character affected by a horrible experience that exposes a lot about their past, but here it felt almost corny in how over-the-top the emphasis was. I also found Charlie’s obsession with her past and her brother coming across as melodramatic. I wonder why he was even in the story in the first place. If you took him out of the story, it seriously wouldn’t make a difference. He’s introduced as this classmate/friend of Charlie’s and a possible rival to John, but he’s only in about two percent of the story, and he doesn’t contribute anything. Speaking of characters, I also found the character of Arty totally unnecessary. The exception might be Charlie, but most of her character is fretting over the events of her past rather than getting to know her and see her grow as a character. In the first, they were just given enough characterization to carry along a slasher movie, but those characters that have come back feel even less like actual people. For one, these characters feel even flatter than they did in the first book. However, there were a number of things I didn’t like about the book. And there were new elements introduced into the story that actually did shed a little light on the franchise (I won’t go into them here, but observant readers should be able to put the pieces together). And I have to admit, the plot was somewhat unpredictable, with the final third–especially the climax–being actually a bit of a whirlwind in how it gripped and held onto you. There was also way more animatronic action, something that was sorely missing from the first book. You can tell that franchise creator Scott Cawthon and writer Kira Breed-Wrisley took their time making sure the grammar, spelling and punctuation was up to scratch, as well as ensuring that the indentation wasn’t all over the place. For one thing, The Twisted Ones is edited much better than The Silver Eyes.
However, a series of murders that can only have been caused by the sentient animatronic suits from Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria draws Charlie, as well as her friend Jessica, old flame John, and hometown sheriff Clay into a bizarre nightmare, with more mysteries to uncover and an old enemy out for blood. Charlie, the protagonist of The Silver Eyes, is at college learning about robotics and trying to sort out all the things that have happened in her past. So, FNAF: The Twisted Ones takes place not too long after the events of the first novel. No, I’m going to evaluate the novel as a novel: how it was written, if it was scary, how good the plot and the characters are, and what could’ve been fixed or improved. I’ll leave that to the people on the Game Theorists channel on YouTube. Could this be an improvement? Or would it just be terrible? I decided to get a copy and find out.Īnd if you’re a huge fan of the franchise or whatever, don’t expect me to delve deeply into the lore and try to figure out the exact mythology of the game. So when I heard that a sequel to the novel, Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Twisted Ones, was coming out, I was skeptical. I find the franchise itself fascinating, though I did not care for the novel that was produced from it, finding it cliched and predictable, as well as poorly edited. You may have heard me speak of the Five Nights at Freddy’s video game franchise about a haunted pizzeria filled with killer animatronics before on this blog (if you’re unfamiliar with what that is and want a quick lesson to know what I’m talking about, click HERE), including the novel released about two years ago, Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Silver Eyes, that’s part of the franchise’s lore (click HERE for my review of that novel).