A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Protege (New Time Cinema)

Customer Reviews:

The best of the series to date

By B. Stratton "bramton1" - July 1, 2006

This was a book that was hard to put down (unlike Dreamspawn, which sat on my bookshelf for a month of two after I got through about 50 pages). It tells the story about Freddy's attempt to get an agent in the real world, though a evil alter-ego of a boy he "infected" as a fetus in his mother's womb. Seventeen years have passed in the boy's life, during which he was protected by a mystical dreamcatcher his psychic aunt acquired from a stranger.

First, the characters were great. We get Jerome, who is willing to do whatever it takes to stop Freddy's plan (such as a failed attempt at suicide). We get Cheryl, the girlfriend, a sweet girl who stands by her man even when she doesn't understand what's happening. We get El, the best friend. We get Lynn, the stepmom (at first, she appears to be the stereotypical stepmom, but later we can see how much she cares for Jerome). We get Bekka, the aunt who gets a great sequence when she tries to power up the repaired dreamcatcher after it... read more

The best in the Elm Street novel series so far

By Thanos6 - February 2, 2006

Tim Waggoner blows David Bishop and (especially) Christa Faust out of the water with PROTEGE. Freddy is the perfect mix of funny and scary, the teenagers are well-written and believable, you want them to survive (well, except for the obligatory jerks) and the battles in the Dream World are right up there with anything done in the movie series. Definitely recommended for Freddy fans!

Awesome Book

By B. Singer "Korn_Army" - January 15, 2006

This book is amazing. Easily the best so far out of the 3. The deaths, even though they aren't Freddy's handiwork, are still brutal. I don't want to give anything away. All I have to say is pick this book up, and you won't want to put it down!