Horror Hotel

YA chiller 

     "But what they don't know is that the spirit world has got your number, so your childhood bedroom becomes a rest stop on the road to the great beyond.  A holding cell for souls with unfinished business.  Or those who die too soon.  Sometimes violently."

     Chrissy sees dead people.  Lots and lots of dead people.  It's a bizarre reality and a lonely one.  Most people have no clue what she has to cope with.

     "One million subs means backers, collabs, funding to travel the world visiting haunted houses, prisons, hospitals, hotels, castles, and more.  Networking and connections with Hollywood producers, managers, agents, celebrities, and studios."

     Chase is coming close to achieving his goal of one million subscribers.  He's already reached 651 thousand.  And he has what he considers a surefire plan to bridge the gap.

     "I've got the 'It' factor.  I know it sounds insane, and probably conceited, but it's not something I run around telling everyone.  It's something I just know, and the rest of the world responds to me knowing."

     Kiki has a Midas touch when it comes to other people.  She just knows how to get people to gladly do whatever she wants them to.

     "Agnosticism is the soul of science.

     It's just that the theatrics of psychic phenomena always feel a little sketch to me.  I like data.  Proof in a form that isn't tainted by the human factor."

     Emma is an inventor of devices to scientifically study psychic phenomena.  She brings a healthy skepticism that balances  her friends' enthusiasm to the pursuit of phantoms.

     You see the four teens form the Ghost Gang.  They have a YouTube channel.  Ghost Girl episodes find them exploring haunted locations.  Now they're taking a road trip to California to check into the Hearst Hotel, infamous for a plethora of tragic deaths that occurred on its premises.  It's considered one of the most haunted hotels around, home to malevolent entities as well as the sketchy living.

     They're minors crossing state lines without parental knowledge or consent.

     They're driving an expensive car into a crime plagued neighborhood.

     Probably a lot of their methods could get them in trouble with the police.

     And it's Halloween: a night when the drugged and drunk living will be partying it up and the no longer living will be out and about.

     What could possibly go wrong?

     Fans of R. L. Stine will find Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren's Horror Hotel to be a thrilling, chilling must read.

On a purrrsonal note, it's been a good week.  It's been sunny and unseasonably warm.  I stayed at school late on Tuesday to make a journal from recycled materials.  I'm making good progress on my student initiatives.  School and work are going fine.  It's great now to be home to start what should be a productive weekend.  (Jules)

I think I'll have my Jules home all weekend.  (Tobago)

A great big shout out goes out to you, dear readers, with best wishes for a wonderful weekend.

Tobago and Jules Hathaway