From the dust jacket- Hendricks Becker-O’Malley is new in town, and she’s bringing baggage with her. With a dark and wild past, Hendricks doesn’t think the small town her parents moved her to has much to offer her in terms of excitement. She plans on laying low, but when she’s suddenly welcomed into the popular crowd at school, things don’t go as expected.
Hendricks learns from her new friends that the fixer-upper her parents are so excited about is notorious in town. Local legend says it’s haunted. Hendricks doesn’t believe it. Until she’s forced to. Blood-curdling screams erupt from the basement, her little brother wakes up covered in scratches, and something, or someone pushes her dad down the stairs. With help from the mysterious boy next door, Hendricks makes it her mission to take down the ghosts . . . if they don’t take her first.
Review- An okay horror novel but it never goes anywhere. Hendricks and her family have moved to a new town for a clean slate. She was in a bad relationship that turned violent and in order to heal, her family moves. But the house they move into has secrets and something is watching from the dark. The plot has promise, the characters are fine, but it never goes anywhere. The ghosts are not tragic but they were horrible people in life and in death they continue to be horrible. That is not a bad plotline but my problem is that the ghosts win in the end. The writing is fine and I would be willing to read another novel by this author but this is not a strong outing for her.
I give this novel a Three out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.
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