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Summoner by S.D. Grimm
I didn't have any reading time on Saturday and barely any time on Friday, when I first picked this up, so when I actually got into it yesterday, I couldn't put it down. It's definitely the kind of creepy book I would've loved as a teenager, but at the same time, it has something more than the typical horror novel.
At it's core, it's a story about loss, love, grief, and learning how to move on to live a life without fear. Allie's mother died six months before the story begins, and she's just getting back to herself. She wakes up in the middle of the night when her hot, new neighbor, Cody, is playing basketball next door. She's the MVP on her high school team, so she goes out to challenge him, and doesn't take it easy on him when she realizes that he only has one hand. Instead, she treats him like anyone else she could've run into and suggests he try out for the men's varsity basketball team. He has some secrets, but nevertheless, he's a cute, cowboy type that readers are going to fall for. Seriously.
That said, there are some very creepy aspects...often that take place in a cemetery as a group of teens dare one another to try witching, a means of using dowsing rods to find bodies, rather than water. Unfortunately for Allie, she summons a spirit who seems to want to help her connect with her mother once again, but might have evil intentions.
Highly recommended for fans of Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, The Diviners by Libba Bray, teen or young at heart readers of YA who once played with ouija or tarot cards, or watched scary movies about someone who summons the dead, but at the same time, want something more than a predictable ghost story.
At it's core, it's a story about loss, love, grief, and learning how to move on to live a life without fear. Allie's mother died six months before the story begins, and she's just getting back to herself. She wakes up in the middle of the night when her hot, new neighbor, Cody, is playing basketball next door. She's the MVP on her high school team, so she goes out to challenge him, and doesn't take it easy on him when she realizes that he only has one hand. Instead, she treats him like anyone else she could've run into and suggests he try out for the men's varsity basketball team. He has some secrets, but nevertheless, he's a cute, cowboy type that readers are going to fall for. Seriously.
That said, there are some very creepy aspects...often that take place in a cemetery as a group of teens dare one another to try witching, a means of using dowsing rods to find bodies, rather than water. Unfortunately for Allie, she summons a spirit who seems to want to help her connect with her mother once again, but might have evil intentions.
Highly recommended for fans of Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, The Diviners by Libba Bray, teen or young at heart readers of YA who once played with ouija or tarot cards, or watched scary movies about someone who summons the dead, but at the same time, want something more than a predictable ghost story.