Before I delve into this review, I just want to say...well, actually shout...my first SLJ review was approved!!!!! Just a few minor edits, mainly for space. My review will appear in the October issue. I had my first reviewer chat, a kind of orientation if you will, today. That was after teaching Google for 6 hours to my colleagues! I'm wiped for sure!
Oh, and get those summer reading forms in!
Now...
This was my kinda book! Horror/thriller/ghostish story set in Vermont. Loved it!
The story is told through alternating viewpoints in the early 1900s and today. Sara Harrison Shea lives in the old farmhouse she inherited with her husband and daughter Gertie. Sara grew up in the home, with her father, siblings, and her "auntie". Auntie seems to be a sometimes lover to Sara's father, dabbles in witchcraft, has Native American Indian blood....you can see that villagers in the late 1800s don't like her very much. Tragically, Gertie falls down a well. Sara tells us that she knows of a legend of ways to wake the dead and see her daughter again. Auntie knows how and wrote the steps in a letter.
Today, Ruth lives in the house with her mother and sister. Her father passed recently from a heart attack. One day Ruth's mother, Alice, goes missing. Ruth and her sister Fawn tear the house apart. In doing so, they find Sara's diary and many secret hiding places throughout. Just what is going on in this house??
We also have Katherine, whose husband secretly came to West Hall, VT, at roughly the same time Alice disappeared, and was killed in a car accident en route home.
Add in Candace, a direct descendant of Sara's. What is her motivation in finding the diary belonging to her great (several times) aunt?
This was a crazy thriller I could not put down. Look for it to be added to the WHHS LMC collection later this autumn.
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