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A review by ssshira
Kristy and the Haunted Mansion by Ann M. Martin
4.0
this is my first time reading this book!
in this kinda great mystery by ghostwriter [a:Ellen Miles|286072|Ellen Miles|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] the krashers (the krushers/bashers team introduced in [b:Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs|48909|Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs (Baby-Sitters Club Mystery, #7)|Ann M. Martin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389413521s/48909.jpg|979666]) are going home from an out-of-town softball game when the rain floods two bridges, trapping them. their only option is to seek help/sleep over at the huge empty mansion on the hill, which is cared for by a creepy old caretaker who lives in a cottage on the property. don't think I wasn't singing over at the frankenstein place while I was reading this. anyway, turns out there's a spoooooky mystery in the house. the young woman who lived there in the 1930s, dorothy, wanted to elope with her beloved, will. her dad did not approve. on the day of the secret elopement, though, she disappeared, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN. so spooky. anyway, the krashers make it home safe and the mystery is solved (see highlights). the only subplot is that folks in stoneybrook are worried.
highlights:
-claud has a freshly tie-dyed shirt that she wears to babysit for jamie newton and in the rain the dye runs all over her. HAHA.
-the mystery resolution. this book is pretty straightforward, but I do like what ends up happening with the mystery. the bsc (and karen brewer) realize from seeing photos of dorothy that she is the same woman who is now running the sewing shop in town. they go and talk to her about trying to get her in touch with will again (after discovering that the creepy caretaker is in fact will, her beloved) and she says that she faked her death so that she could be free of her father AND her beloved, because she doesn't need no man. BOOM.
lowlights/nitpicks:
-why is charlie driving a van? whose van? it's never explained.
-why is karen one of the krashers, when there are older kids who are better at sports on the krushers (and the krashers are the all-stars). also I thought all of the bashers were boys (or at least they were described that way in [b:Kristy and the Walking Disaster|48912|Kristy and the Walking Disaster (The Baby-Sitters Club, #20)|Ann M. Martin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388254433s/48912.jpg|527369]), so where did patty come from?
claudia outfit:
-"She was wearing white knee-length jeans shorts, white Keds, and a tie-dyed T-shirt she'd made the weekend before. It was a beautiful one, with spirals of yellow and green and purple, and she was proud of it. She was also wearing a pair of earrings she'd made from green glass she had found on the beach. The glass had been polished by the waves so it had no sharp edges, and Claud had hung two pieces in little silver cages that now dangled from her ears."
jackie disaster:
-plays with the drapes and pulls one down over him
no snacks in claudia's room.
in this kinda great mystery by ghostwriter [a:Ellen Miles|286072|Ellen Miles|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] the krashers (the krushers/bashers team introduced in [b:Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs|48909|Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs (Baby-Sitters Club Mystery, #7)|Ann M. Martin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389413521s/48909.jpg|979666]) are going home from an out-of-town softball game when the rain floods two bridges, trapping them. their only option is to seek help/sleep over at the huge empty mansion on the hill, which is cared for by a creepy old caretaker who lives in a cottage on the property. don't think I wasn't singing over at the frankenstein place while I was reading this. anyway, turns out there's a spoooooky mystery in the house. the young woman who lived there in the 1930s, dorothy, wanted to elope with her beloved, will. her dad did not approve. on the day of the secret elopement, though, she disappeared, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN. so spooky. anyway, the krashers make it home safe and the mystery is solved (see highlights). the only subplot is that folks in stoneybrook are worried.
highlights:
-claud has a freshly tie-dyed shirt that she wears to babysit for jamie newton and in the rain the dye runs all over her. HAHA.
-the mystery resolution. this book is pretty straightforward, but I do like what ends up happening with the mystery. the bsc (and karen brewer) realize from seeing photos of dorothy that she is the same woman who is now running the sewing shop in town. they go and talk to her about trying to get her in touch with will again (after discovering that the creepy caretaker is in fact will, her beloved) and she says that she faked her death so that she could be free of her father AND her beloved, because she doesn't need no man. BOOM.
lowlights/nitpicks:
-why is charlie driving a van? whose van? it's never explained.
-why is karen one of the krashers, when there are older kids who are better at sports on the krushers (and the krashers are the all-stars). also I thought all of the bashers were boys (or at least they were described that way in [b:Kristy and the Walking Disaster|48912|Kristy and the Walking Disaster (The Baby-Sitters Club, #20)|Ann M. Martin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388254433s/48912.jpg|527369]), so where did patty come from?
claudia outfit:
-"She was wearing white knee-length jeans shorts, white Keds, and a tie-dyed T-shirt she'd made the weekend before. It was a beautiful one, with spirals of yellow and green and purple, and she was proud of it. She was also wearing a pair of earrings she'd made from green glass she had found on the beach. The glass had been polished by the waves so it had no sharp edges, and Claud had hung two pieces in little silver cages that now dangled from her ears."
jackie disaster:
-plays with the drapes and pulls one down over him
no snacks in claudia's room.