Dream house . . . or bad dream?
When the Kings move from L.A. to a secluded small town, fifteen-year-old Xander is beyond disappointed. He and his friends loved to create amateur films . . . but the tiny town of Pinedale is the last place a movie buff and future filmmaker wants to land.
But he, David, and Toria are captivated by the many rooms in the old Victorian fixer-upper they moved into--as well as the heavy woods surrounding the house.
They soon discover there's something odd about the house. Sounds come from the wrong directions. Prints of giant, bare feet appear in the dust. And when David tries to hide in the linen closet, he winds up in locker 119 at his new school.
Then the really weird stuff kicks in: they find a hidden hallway with portals leading off to far-off places--in long-ago times. Xander is starting to wonder if this kind of travel is a teen's dream come true . . . or his worst nightmare.
As a free download from Amazon for my Kindle I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, and in all truth it really wasn't. But it was fairly interesting and the beginning really had me wanting to read more. It started off as kind of a creepy book so I was tense for a bit but then after chapters of nothing but normal stuff it finally got to a bit of adventure with the house, and then finally creepy again toward the end. Other then young adult and fantasy I'm not sure where this belongs in the genre scale. It was creepy in two main places, it had some mystery in the same two places but the rest was all normal.
I probably won't be looking for the second one unless it too is free, and I don't think this will stand out in my mind for years to come.
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