Meanwhile, that fourth suitor, the accidental addition to her dating pool, is glaringly suspicious from the start.Īvid Point Horror and Fear Street readers will feel at home with Eye Candy. On two separate occasions, an acquaintance sexually harasses Lindy right beneath his girlfriend’s nose. He ultimately shows Lindy’s luck with guys she knows or meets in real life is no better if not assuredly worse. Stine plays into that doubt without agreeing with it. This is only after reconsidering a long run of distrust of the internet passed down by over careful parents and perpetuated by the media. Of course most of the suspense occurs in more intimate spaces or situations Lindy’s room is ransacked and her dates gradually become sources of dread rather than pleasure.īy the early 2000s, society had slowly begun to embrace the idea of meeting their soulmate online. The big city setting adds to Lindy’s paranoia and summons a bigger playground for the cat-and-mouse games. The characters are hardly that much older than the oldest protagonists in a Shadyside thriller, but the story distinctly takes place in post-9/11 NYC as opposed to small-town America.
She enlists the help of Ben’s former partner, Tommy Foster, who advises Lindy to continues dating her four beaus as a way to expose her stalker.Īside from the sporadic coarse language and a very brief sex scene, Eye Candy feels like something out of Fear Street. While her dates seem harmless enough, Lindy is soon faced with the possibility that one of them is dangerous. A username of “Eye Candy” catches the attention of three eligible men: bad kisser Brad, cheapskate Jack, and cinephile Colin. Her friends and roommates, Ann-Marie and Luisa, encourage her to post a profile on the former pal goes ahead and makes one on Lindy’s behalf. Her ex, a cop named Ben, died in a car chase only one year prior to the story. Stine, however, pictured a different outcome for his character Lindy Sampson.īeautiful, smart, and humble - 23-year-old Lindy seems to have her life together in spite of a recent tragedy. The “horror” stories born from these encounters were usually of the awkward variety. Yet before swiping right was ever an option, singles uploaded their personalities and desires to sites like and OkCupid in hopes of making an eventual connection offline. There was once a general wariness toward online dating, whereas nowadays everyone does it. Dating for some folks had already shifted to the ‘net before Eye Candy was published in 2004, but not a great deal of fiction was covering this alternative for courting. Unfortunately, putting herself out there also paints a target on her forehead.įrom scathing celebrity gossip blogs to burgeoning social media platforms and “stan” cultures, the mid to late 2000s was a wild time to be online. Specifically a website that caters to lonely hearts. In Stine’s third novel aimed at older readers, Eye Candy shadows a woman looking for love in all the wrong places. Sprinkled throughout his extensive oeuvre are the occasional grown-up tales of terror four to be exact.
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Stine is best known for scaring younger audiences, namely with series like Fear Street and Goosebumps, the prolific children’s author has dabbled in adult stories from time to time.
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