A review by quietjenn
Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell

3.0

i thought this was decent, although i don't have the mad love for it that many people are displaying. i picked it up because it was one of the ya edgar nominees, but it doesn't quite work for me as a mystery. and, it doesn't quite work for me as a ghost story, as i wasn't really creeped out by it (although, i've sort of decided that i'm difficult to scare, as probably the majority of books that are supposed to scare me don't and i usually find their so-called horror elements laughable). (that being said, i'm glad that there wasn't a terriby convenient explanation for the haunting in this book.) as a tight, coming-of-age-in-the-south-one-summer, it fared better and it did mostly work.
terrible, terrible cover though.