House of Dark Shadows by Robert LiparuloMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
What a fun ride this book was! I love YA books that are written like this one; smart and funny, appealing and approachable, and above all so very, very entertaining.
Xander, his parents, and his two younger siblings have recently relocated due to his father's new job, as principal of the middle and high school of a small town in northern California. He has to leave behind his fledgling short film career, his girlfriend, and all of the fun things he loves about southern California. But the very cool, gothic victorian 7-bedroom mansion his family finds for a steal, off the beaten path and with a mystery surrounding it might cure his homesickness.
There are rumors about the house; a wife was presumed murdered by her husband, who then vanished with his two small children to flee prosecution. Dirty dishes were left in the sink, books on the shelves, sheets on the beds. Decades of dust accumulated, along with other things that cause strange noises, not just the creaks and groans of your average old house, but eerie echoes and footsteps out of nowhere.
I won't give away any of the surprises and mysteries that Xander and his family discovers, but I will tell you that you'll be on the edge of your seat til the last page - and probably will stay that way! I'm getting ready to start book two in the series very, very soon!
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