Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes

How can I describe my feelings on Five Nights at Freddy's? Many people think the series is dumb, not scary, overrated, and milked for all it is worth. They are entitled to be wrong. I have loved every aspect of the series from the games to the hidden lore. They have terrified me, stumped me, mystified me with what is really going on, and I developed an obsession with The Game Theorist and his also endless quest for knowledge about the truth of the game. How surprised I was that Scott Cawthon had co-written a book about his bear and his bunny, chicken, and fox friends.

The anticipation for getting this book was like waiting for the last piece of a cosplay to come in the mail after its delivery date had passed. I requested it through the library but rather than having Mikey pick it up while he was at work, I asked to have it sent to our nearest branch in Northwood so I could pick it up as soon as it arrived. The kids in the neighborhood could not wait for it to arrive either. After nearly a month, it still had not arrived, so I bought the damn thing and the postman delivered it in two days. It was a cool day outside and my responsibilities were about to be shoved aside for an afternoon on the porch, engulfed in Freddy Fazbear fandom. I put Khaleesi on her lead, pushed Zombie outside, got a towel to sit on and some tea to drink, and opened up the crisp pages of my new novel...

...to find double spaced pages. Now I am not saying every bad novel is double spaced. It is a tactic used by editors to sell the book at a higher price, but double spaced paragraphs are not for reading. We double space so we can edit and proofread. No matter, I thought to myself. A little extra effort on my part but this is FNAF! That makes up for it!

Let's start with the good. The story, once it gets going, is definitely something Scott Cawthon wrote. Our main character is 17 year old Charlotte (Charlie) who is the daughter of Freddy Fazbear's creator. She is traveling back to her home town of Hurricane for a 10 year anniversary/memorial of the death of Michael, one of the children kidnapped at Freddy's. She meets up with peers she went to school with and who remember Freddy's. They sneak into the old Freddy building a few times, stuff happens.

There was a point in the last fourth of the book that I was getting chills from the words forming those all-too-familiar images of our favorite animatronics going after the kiddies. It is not something that happens often when I am reading. Kudos to that.

 

As I mentioned before, it takes the book awhile to get going. About four chapters. The only reasons I stuck with it were because I wanted to experience the entire series and leave no stone unturned and I had bought the book, I might as well finish it before handing it to one of the neighbor kids to read and pass to his friends as I did him. Charlie and the others could have gotten to Freddy's in the first chapter. There is also very little lore in the book besides what happened to Charlie's father and who committed the murders, which MatPat covers in his predictions for the upcoming game, Sister Location.

Except for Jason, a character five years younger than the rest of the group, it was hard to distinguish between each character, even Charlie. Each had one or two lines that made them distinct but everyone was the exact same person in my mind save for those small glimmers of personality at some point.

It seems as if Cawthon had his ideas fleshed out and the other author and/or the editor believed Twilight was a classic piece to be mimicked in style and finesse minus the vampires and unhealthy relationships.

Do not buy this book. Get it from the library if you are so keen to read it, but it would be best to get spoilers from someone who braved through it. Be prepared to march through a good amount of fluff before getting to the story and write down who is who.