Delicious Monsters

YA chiller 

     My older daughter, Amber, watched The Shining and became a Stephen King fan for life in first grade. As a reader she devoured every R. L. Stine book she could get her hands on--multiple times for the choose your own ending ones.  It wasn't long before she was back with the Horrormeister hanging out in the Overlook and Salem's Lot.  So a chiller has to be GOOD to impress her.  I believe  that when she starts reading Liselle Sambury's Delicious Monsters she'll have a hard time putting it down.  And there are very few books I'd say that about.

"Seeing dead people was the worst.

     They shuffled from one place to another, mouths gaping wide even though most of them didn't talk...Mostly they were distracting and annoying.  And I seemed to be the only one cursed to notice them.  I had seen them walk through people who didn't even give the tiniest shiver of subconscious recognition."

     Daisy can't step outside her house without seeing the deceased who linger on Earth, unable to pass on.  Only as the story begins it's the very much alive who are royally pissing her off.  To be more specific, it's her boyfriend and the girl she's seen him cheating on her with.

     "At the end of the day, we hand in our proposal for the third season of Haunted:  'Houses That Kill.'...Our first stop will be the Miracle Mansion and the mystery of Grace and Daisy Odlin--including how the house racked up a body count.  The very same place that my mom, in her bestselling book, claims changed her from an abusive and neglectful parent to a completely reformed woman."

     Brittney is working an internship at a media company.  With two seasons of a hit show behind her she hopes that if the third is even bigger she'll be able to earn the kind of money that will enable her to break free of Mommy Dearest and expose her as a fraud in the process.  And find out whatever did happen to Daisy.

     The girls are separated by ten years but united across time by one of the most evil houses portrayed in literature.  It's the isolated mansion Daisy's mother, Grace, unexpectedly inherited and decided to turn into a bed and breakfast.  It's the house where Brittney's then pregnant mother credits with her miraculous recovery.

     It's a house that draws in the dead and devours the living, a mausoleum seemingly nobody can get under control.

     Portions of the book get really scary.  But if you're a hard core chiller affecianado you'll find Delicious Monsters to be the Cat's Pajamas.

On a purrrsonal note, it was a pretty good weekend.  Saturday, of course, was the end of Clean Sweep.  Eugene was at camp that night.  He came back early Sunday.  We got breakfast at Denny's and went on a short road trip.  (Jules)

Slumber party weekend for me and Jules.  (Tobago)

A great big shout out goes out to Eugene.  

Tobago and Jules Hathaway 

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