During the last days of December I had tried reading as much as possible because I felt like I have too many open books that I haven’t really checked out yet and I wanted to reach my reading goal for a year. I tried reading this book before but ended up putting it away so I decided on giving it another ago and this time I completed it I liked it but it sometimes I was having some problems with it because I was not really focusing on it and I was having a hard time wanting to read it, so I tried reading it in a day like just giving it a day and if I’m not going to finish it after that day, I’m just gonna not complete it but I ended up actually reading this book in a day and it was okay. I can recommend that if you are a stranger things fan which in my case I have seen the show, but I never really adapted to it and never really found like a huge interest in it, but I definitely want to read all of the books that are out there based on a TV show and just give them a go so that’s why I read this one and some of them are good. Some of them are not so good, and this one is definitely one of them that is like semi good.

Als jemand, der Stranger Things gesehen und Eddie Munson sehr mochte, habe ich mich darüber gefreut, als ich dieses Buch zufällig gefunden habe. Die Sprache ist einfach gehalten und sehr gut zu verstehen. Es war schön, einen Einblick in Eddie Munsons Gedanken zu bekommen, da er in der Serie ja leider nur kurz vorkommt, allerdings blieb das ganze recht oberflächlich. Die Geschichte ist als kleiner Snack für zwischendurch ganz gut, aber nichts Weltbewegendes.

This review contains (light) spoilers.I was hoping for more of the beginning an the end. DnD, band practice, friendly banter, days out of a misfits life. I wouldn't have minded a "boring" coming of age story.I didn't care much for the father-son-heist. It felt so out of place and unrealistic. Eddie who never felt like a hero has been held at gunpoint and almost managed a huge ass drug heist? Doesn't make sense. The romance subplot felt forced. There wasn't really any actual chemistry (and stranger things fans know Eddie can have chemistry with pretty much anybody).And the whole thing about going to California for a record deal? Without his friends? I would usually give this 3 stars but because I am still a big fan of the outsiders and misfits I have to bump it up a bit