Name: The Twisted Ones
ISBN: 9781338139303

Kira Breed-Wrisley

Scott Cawthon

The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes. It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school-bearing wounds that are disturbingly familiar-she finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go.

The Twisted Ones

I liked the ending a lot! Plus all the concepts regarding ‘robot senses,’ I’ll say, were really cool!

Hannah Russo

YES YES YES! my fave in the series!! had me sobbing at the end. i literally couldn’t put it down. i even wrote an alternative ending to this book just for fun. loved breaking it down and analyzing it.

Briar's Reviews

Ah, another day of FNAF lore is another casual day for me. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that I'd read this book (I'm overly obsessed with FNAF theories. Too obsessed...in all honesty). While it took me a while to get to it, the book was definitely worth the wait.

The Twisted Ones is the second book in the FNAF book series. The lore is different from the video games (same animatronics, different back story, but some similar names of characters...) but you could easily try to eave it into the video games if you tried (or if you trust Scott and his sneaky ways).

While this appears to be a YA novel, some of the gore is definitely closer to R rated. If you're a fan of FNAF, it probably wouldn't come as big of a surprise to know some of the gore is REALLY GORY, but keep that in mind if you choose to read it.

Plot wise, the story continued with a smooth transition. There is a time jump between the first and second book, but it worked in it's favour. Slowly plot details are revealed and old characters appear, and eventually Scott and Kira build and add to this spectacular take on the lore. I really did enjoy it - more animatronics, more craziness!

The book is relatively fast paced - I didn't get bored once. I really hope the next book is the last book in this series to finish it up. This book was the perfect sequel, so I'd like to see an explosive ending (by the way, MAJOR CLIFFHANGER ALERT). 

Now, time for some lore discussion - this book will raise questions. Don't try to tie it to the book, and you'll be feeling mighty fine! If you start trying to make a wild, crazy theory you'll get fed up and quit. This book is supposed to be fun and increase circulation of this series (from my perspective) and it is increasing the fan base. Look at how many people are frustrated with the fact that this book doesn't fit in with the FNAF video games and are talking about it constantly... It's a lot of people. More conversations, more circulation, more participation, more people reading... It's marketing genius. Is this book kinda silly? Yes. Were half of my questions answered in regard to lore for this book series? No. But it's fun! I think this is a fun read that didn't require my brain to explode to understand it. 

Side note: Can we get a FNAF graphic novel or something? This book would be EPIC in picture form...just saying.

Four out of five stars.

Paige Green

Disclaimer: I received this book from my husband. Get you a partner that buys you books!

Book: The Twisted Ones

Author: Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley

Book Series: Five Nights at Freddy’s Book 2

Rating: 5/5

Recommended For...: horror fans, ya readers

Publication Date: June 27, 2017

Genre: YA Horror

Recommended Age: 16+ (gore, violence, child death, death)

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Pages: 297

Synopsis: It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school bearing wounds that are disturbingly familiar she finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go.

Review: I thought this was a solid sequel. It had really good character development for our main character and a few of the sides and the book had a very fast pacing, which fit with the book. The book also did well on the background details and the animatronics detailing. The plot also kept me intrigued.


However I did feel like the book was too fast and that I didn't fully understand the story. The book did well to get me from book 1 to book 3 but it's just a bit unclear what the reason behind it was.

Verdict: I really liked this!

Raven Mason-Uyeda

"It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school bearing wounds that are disturbingly familiar she finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go."--Page 4 of cover.

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Katelyn Broad

It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her schoolbearing wounds that are disturbingly familiarshe finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go.