'Dreamspawn'
Well - it's not too bad of a book but i believe that the author didn't really fully understand what we wanted in a Nightmare on Elm St. book. When i first walked into the book store and saw it sitting on the shelf i was like, "Wow! 400 pages of surreal Freddy action!" Instead what i got was 200 pages of some Freddy stuff and whole crapload of teen angst and romance.
It's kinda corny because you can tell that the author worked in as much of her own personal likes and dislikes as possible. The book REALLY want's us to go watch 'The Others'. It also plugs alot of other music and movies in there and after a while it gets to be kinda stupid.
I bet the author really wants to be seen as someone who has 'Victorian sensabilities'. The charachters in the book seem to think that having 'Victorian sensabilities' is something that happens alot in people.
Then there are alot of things that just aren't true to tradition. The book doesn't even take place in Springwood (wtf?). Freddy doesn't EVER use his glove (seriously if he'd have used his glove just once at the end that would be ok). Freddy also beats over 400 people to death with a tire iron (the Freddy we know would probably have killed 400 people in 400 different ways which would make hime powerful enough to rule the frickin' world).
Overall i think this book was Ok to read if you like Freddy alot and are bored. Otherwise this feels like something an 18 year old goth girl would write between posts on one of those cornball vampire forums. She even threw Mexican wrestling into the book because she likes mexican wrestling.