R.L Stine - Fear Street: The Perfect Date

The Perfect Date is anything but. R.L. Stine takes the glossy sheen of teenage romance and rips it clean off, revealing something dark, cold, and rotting underneath. At first glance, it’s a love story — the quiet, awkward guy meets the mysterious new girl, and things click. She’s beautiful, intense, maybe a little too intense. But hey, what’s high school without a little obsession?

Brady Karlin should’ve trusted his gut. The signs were there from the start — the eerie silences, the mood swings, the way his new girlfriend, Rosha, seems to appear out of nowhere and vanish just as fast. But when you’re a lonely teen and someone finally pays attention to you, you ignore the red flags. You push past the warning signs. Until one day, you find out she’s not who she says she is... and by then, it’s too damn late.

What Stine does so well here is twist the ordinary into the terrifying. A walk after school becomes a trap. A kiss in the moonlight turns into a nightmare. And Rosha? She’s more than a bad date — she’s a ticking time bomb with a smile. By the end of The Perfect Date, the only thing you’ll be swiping right on is survival. Because love hurts. And sometimes... it kills.