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This is one of those books that I would never, ever have read if I hadn\u2019t bumped into the author online in an author\u2019s forum and got to know him. YA? Horror? Eek! No way\u2026 and blow me down, if it wasn\u2019t a whole heap of fun. Who\u2019d a thunk it?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the premise: Amy is fourteen when her parents uproot her from LA and move to dull, small-town Narrowdale. She thinks her worst problem is going to be boredom. Ha! Not a chance. Because first there are the strange dreams, where she\u2019s being followed and there\u2019s this odd whistling. And then\u2026 well, let\u2019s just say that it gets a whole lot weirder after that.<\/p>\n
Amy herself is a big part of the fun, because she\u2019s your actual spunky heroine. Strange noises at night? Should I sneak out of the house and wander around deserted streets on my own to see what\u2019s going on? Hell, yes! And she has an easy-come easy-go attitude to school – like, it\u2019s boring, so why don\u2019t I bunk off and go talk to the weird homeless guy who knows stuff? So this is bound to appeal to a certain age group who finds school somewhat less than riveting. Does anyone find school riveting? This book is probably not for you.<\/p>\n
Better than all of this, though, is that this book made me laugh out loud more times than I could count. It\u2019s just plain funny, and I love a book that can give me the shivers one moment and crack me up the next. A great combination. Just one warning: the punctuation is somewhat haphazard. Now my own punctuation is pretty wayward, so I\u2019m tolerant of that and the book was enjoyable enough that it never became a hindrance. The author is getting some more editing done to improve things, so if this is a deal-breaker, hold off until things are tidied up.<\/p>\n
A light, fun read that would work fine for middle-grade and upwards. I\u2019m not sure where on the horror-spooky-supernatural spectrum it falls, but I didn\u2019t find it too scary or gory. Four stars for sheer entertainment value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is one of those books that I would never, ever have read if I hadn\u2019t bumped into the author online in an author\u2019s forum and got to know him. YA? Horror? Eek! No way\u2026 and blow me down, if it wasn\u2019t a whole heap of fun. Who\u2019d a thunk it? Here\u2019s the premise: Amy is fourteen when her parents uproot her from LA and move to dull, small-town Narrowdale. She thinks her worst problem is going to be boredom. Ha! Not a chance. Because first there are the strange dreams, where she\u2019s being followed and there\u2019s this odd whistling. And then\u2026 well, let\u2019s just say that it gets a whole lot weirder after that. Amy herself is a big part of the fun, because she\u2019s your actual spunky heroine. Strange noises at night? Should I sneak out of the house and wander around deserted streets on my own to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}