Review:
This stars a group of teens: Cassie (a girl who has a sorta kinda crush on Scott, although she hates the way his laugh sounds), Scott (an all-around kind of guy, more of a follower than a leader), Eddie (timid, poor, and often picked on), and Winks (a prankster).
The group decides to go practice driving - illegally, since none of them have their licenses, but they figure it should be fine since they've picked a fairly empty stretch of road. It goes mostly okay until Eddie is behind the wheel and Winks pulls a mean prank on him, making him think something is in the road. The experience is clearly upsetting for Eddie, and yet it's Eddie who, not too much later, suggests that they all go out and practice again. It seems he wants to prove that he wasn't too scared that one time, although he does make Winks promise to behave himself.
When Eddie takes his turn driving, however, he really does hit someone this time. They drag the man to the side of the road and try to pretend it never happened, but then everybody but Scott starts to getting calls and messages, apparently from the dead man. Has he come back to get revenge, or is there something else going on?
Stine's efforts to hide the truth weren't very effective - I didn't guess how things were done (because who would do that, it was insane!), but it wasn't hard to tell who was likely behind it all.
Man, literally all the guys in this book were horrible human beings. Their "pranks" were all more examples of a gruesome lack of empathy than anything actually funny.
This was like I Know What You Did Last Summer, but with extra jerkishness. Also, this really did feel enough like Lois Duncan's book that I felt like R.L. Stine should have credited her as an influence.
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