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samanthaspice91's review
3.0
I've never read the mysteries so obviously I'm doing it now, though they are hard to find. This was a decent Scooby-Doo mystery but the whole Claud plot line is yikes yikes yikes.
leighannsherwin's review
5.0
Ever since they announced that all of the original Baby Sitters Club books were being released on audible I have become obsessed with reliving my childhood going back to a simpler time before I had adult responsibilities and could sit and devour these books, wishing I had friends like Stacey, Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, Dawn, Jessi and Mallory. I had read most of the original series and some of the special books, and of course Karen's spin off Little Sister series, but had no clue there were Super Mysteries. Four to be exact and on impulse I bought all four for my kindle. I'm not sure where in the series this book falls, it alludes to certain events going on like Stacey not talking to the girls, which sucks as Stacey is my fave, she brings me happy memories of reading with my mom, and also about an ex boyfriend of Dawn's. I'll have to try and figure it out to get a full picture. But anyway the story begins with the girls getting an offer to baby sit a large group of kids in the seaside town if Reese Maine. The Menders family has inherited a house, a grand mansion and with their four kids, they are going to travel there to see if they want to move to Reese full time. Tagging along is Watson's ex wife, her new husband and Karen and Andrew. Naturally the girls fight over who gets to go on what promises to be the vacation of a lifetime. A compromise is reached and Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne and Dawn are hired to go leaving Mallory and Jessi in charge of the club. Upon arriving in Reese they are first in awe of how big the Randolph Mansion is. A grand spooky old house, four stories, with the floor floor and attic locked. As I am also rereading Flowers in the Attic a locked attic had me more spooked than anything. On the first night they begin to see and hear ghostly things and it continues throughout the trip. From lights turning on in seemingly empty rooms to a ghostly woman standing on the widow's walk, to screaming screeching sounds in the walls add to that a cat named Spooky who appears out of nowhere and mysterious tales of the Randolph family and there is a huge mystery to be solved. Our baby sitters manage this while also tackling the impossible task of trying to get the Menders children to make friends and want to move to the small town after life in Boston. There is a shorter side story of poor Jessi and Mallory trying to keep the club going and not doing it so well at first until as always things start to look up for them. Overall I'm loving the nostalgia of these books, from old school VCRs to landline phones and answering machines that need to be hooked up and kept on (how did we survive back then?) to the fashion choices from the late 80's and 90s. I couldn't be a baby sitter or a parent for that matter as often the kids in the book annoyed me, from Karen being so damned pushy with poor Martha, to Jill hanging off Dawn like Velcro, to the pain that was Lionel. Oddly enough though Andrew being a frog didn't bother me and Martha was someone I wanted to hug having been in her shoes at that age only in reverse, at about six I moved from a small close knit community to what seemed like a large city and I was terrified. No wonder I lost myself in books something to continue to do to this day. This book was plenty spooky and surprisingly gripping considering its a kids or young adult book and if the other three are the same I can't wait to start reading them next.
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