Legend of the Lost Legend (Goosebumps #47) by R.L. Stine (Epub)

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Nobody loves a good story like Justin’s dad. He’s a famous writer and story collector. That’s how Justin and his sister, Marissa, ended up in Brovania. Their dad is searching for an ancient manuscript called “The Lost Legend.”

Justin and Marissa want to help. But instead of finding “The Lost Legend,” they get lost. And the woods of Brovania are filled with the strangest creatures. Like hundreds of squealing mice. Silver-colored dogs. And terrifying Vikings from long ago..

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⭐ Not a lot of readers liked this book, and it hasn’t been reprinted along with the rest of the series, unfortunately. The basic premise is a bit bizarre (although, how many of these books aren’t?). Lost Legend reminds me a lot of The Beast From the East, with the characters being lost in a strange forest filled with odd creatures. Most readers complained that the book just had random occurrences of stupid things happening, however I liked the general idea and congratulate Stine for writing something that didn’t totally conform to the rest of the series. The plot is about two kids and their dad who are searching for a lost treasure in a strange foreign forest. Lots of bizarre happenings ensue including hundreds of mice hatching from eggs, a strange wolf-man, and a mysterious Viking woman. A long way from evil sponges and garden gnomes. Overall, I thought the writing was good and the idea intriguing.

⭐ Once again, a surprising ending! I read this in a day and enjoyed it. Different than all of other Stone’s books, nice to read something not set in suburbia, with vikings!

⭐ Only bought it for the nostalgia, but the book itself is not that good. The plot was really predictable.

⭐ Was happy with my gosebump book

⭐ Thanks

⭐ Great book. Received quickly and exactly as described!

⭐ Perfect!

⭐ There is only one word to describe this book, and that is perfect. Whatever part of the book you think of is perfect. The binding, the cover, and the pages are all perfect.

⭐ Legend of the Lost Legend was received poorly, and helped signal the impending end of the series. It’s one of the only Goosebumps stories to never be republished. It’s also a straight fantasy, with no horror in sight.& it’s not that bad. It’s a fun setup, hampered by a second act of random events that have nothing to do with the defined setting or story.The best Goosebumps stories rarely leave suburbia, and for good reason. When we get stories out in the woods, or island jungles, or arctic tundra — anywhere remotely exotic from the Midwestern United States — the stories never make any use or even understanding of the settings. This one, set in the forests of the make-believe country of Brovania, is no different.Siblings Justin and Marissa are on a quest with their father — a professor who collects and publishes folklore from around the world — to find the Lost Legend. The story’s title refers to stories of a lost folktale, written and buried deep in the area’s forests. It’s a fun setup, I think, and the first third of the book is solid Goosebumps. The kids get lost following a dog, and stumble upon an unusual woman (dressed as a viking!) who offers them what they seek if they pass a test.Unfortunately, the test is where the story loses itself. The creepy woods are replaced with papier-mâché models pretending to be a forest (literally: The Fantasy Forest). Native life is replaced by animatronic mice and giant cats. And then the test is over. It doesn’t make any sense, nor is it interesting.The tale concludes with a humorous twist that does the series justice, at least: The Lost Legend of the title isn’t quite what the heroes expected — or wanted. While the story’s not as bad as some of the preceding stinkers (I’m looking at you, Beast from the East), it’s hurt by the cascade of random events driving the plot, and by not taking advantage of the great setting.The idea of being eaten alive by a giant cat with a giant, scratchy tongue that likes to play with its food is pretty awful, though.5/10

⭐ I loved Goosebumps as a kid, but they weren’t all great. This being one of the not so great ones. Even as a kid this was just bad. I’m about to spoil the entire story for you, and there’s a reason for that. This book is so bad I don’t want you to read it. You will actually be better off not reading this. Skip it and find a better Goosebumps book. Here’s why…So the story was about Justin and his sister Marissa, camping with their father in the woods of Brovania (pretty sure that’s not a real place). Their father is a writer who travels all over the world collecting folk tales and legends and he’s there looking for the Legend of the Lost Legend (no joke, that’s actually what they call it). It’s a legend written down on a parchment that no one has seen or read in over 500 years and is said to be locked in a silver chest hidden somewhere in those woods. That sounds kind of dumb right? And sadly that’s all the plot there in to this thing. That’s literally it. They are in the woods looking for this chest. But hey this is still an interesting setting right? There are a lot of creepy things you can do with that setting that you can’t do with the whole suburbia/summer camp/school settings you normally get, right?Sadly Stine doesn’t do any of that stuff. The kids get lost in the woods as expected and then we get a nice little string of encounters that make no sense and don’t fit with the setting at all. Instead we get a viking woman that turns out to be a life sized wind up doll, robot mice that hatch out of eggs, and giant house cats. Because that’s the kind of stuff I expect from the haunted forests of Not-Bavaria… And if that doesn’t bug you, the fake out scares will. Stine ends every single chapter on a fake out. That’s where the chapter ends with something really bad happening then you turn the page and find out in the first paragraph that it wasn’t anything bad at all. It’s okay to do that here and there, but when you do it every 3 or 4 pages it gets really old really fast. Even when there is no room for a fake out scare he still forces one in. The chapter ends with the characters eating soup after finally finding shelter from the woods? Oh I forgot, the soup is poisoned! Turn the page. No I’m joking it’s not really poisoned! Haha, fooled you! (That’s actually in the book.)But even worse, Stine uses the old, nothing was real this was all a test trope once again. Not that the trope doesn’t have it’s place. It does. And that place is at the end of the story, used as a twist ending. But for some reason Stine didn’t do that. He instead has the characters figure it out half way through the story, so there is no reason for you, the reader, to be scared because you already know nothing is real and the kids are in no danger. This makes the entire second half of the book just painful to read and the whole time you are just wishing it would end already.And trust me when I say it doesn’t end soon enough. Even after they pass the test by… deciding they are tired of it and walking away… because I guess that was all they needed to do… and are given the chest, there still wasn’t enough story (or lack there of) to fill up the appropriate page count so Stine drags things out even more. They find their dad, open the chest, realize they were given some other legendary magic relic instead of the Lost Legend, take it back and demand to swap it out for what they were actually after… No I’m serious again. They are given the Eternal Egg of Truth. I have no idea what that is because it is never explained in the book. Never even mentioned in the book before they get it. But whatever it is it sounds kind of important, like that would be a really big find that could be quite valuable. And yet the characters all treat it like it is nothing and just give it back, asking where the Lost Legend is instead. Even as a kid I was ready to just throw the book away at this point. It was so stupid and unrealistic.But if I had done that I wouldn’t have seen the ending where they are told exactly where to find the wandering nomads who have the Lost Legend, (I guess they don’t wander very far) go and ask them for it, and have it handed over to them without question or confrontation. You know… because it’s cursed and whoever owns it can never find their way out of the forest. Those nomads were all like, “It’s your problem now! Suckers!” And no kids… that’s not clever writing. That’s what we call an over-used trope. That’s been done before in countless fairy tails and Greek myths for as long as anyone can remember. It’s just lazy writing at this point. But then the whole book was lazy writing from start to finish.I feel like Stine really wanted this to be something else. He built up a pretty good setting and atmosphere early on that looked like it could have been one of the best Goosebumps yet. But it was like he hit a bad bit of writers block after five or six chapters and just started slapping things together without thinking about it to meet the deadline. Either way this is not a book. It’s word vomit and you will be better off skipping it and moving on to the next Goosebumps on your to-read list.

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