trick or treat by richie tankersley cusick

He is around Martha’s age but they are not the best of friends.

Martha’s dad has just remarried to Sally who has a son, Connor. I can just imagine my YA self interacting with the characters. When reading this book I felt like I was travelling through time to my YA youth. I am curious to read these YA books which I did not experience as a YA.Īfter reading this book the biggest reason for doing so is this. They are people’s favourite books of their youth and opened up the world of horror to them. Finding old horror books is rare so I will grab these off the shelf.

I find these books during my book hunting and they leap out at me. So why read these books? Well, for a start they have fantastic covers. I am in my 40’s so not really the intended audience for this story and I read the book within this context. My first YA Point Horror read ever! I have a few more Point Horror’s and other YA horror books to read and I am definitely looking forward to reading them. This was an okay young-adult suspense story. There wasn't much Halloween in the book, except for the last couple chapters. It had a dark, spooky house, a cemetery/mausoleum out back (in the woods), whispers and cries in the night, and surprisingly, a little/slight romance. This was an enjoyable read, it started and ended well, even though the middle was a bit slow. Then her Dad gets a phone call and he has to go work on an assignment in Hawaii, and goes with wife Sally, leaving Martha alone with Conor in the creepy house. One night, a scarecrow is found hanging outside her bedroom window with a knife in its head.

And she's starting to receive threatening phone calls. A young girl was murdered there a year ago on Halloween-in her bedroom! The worst part is Martha bears a resemblance to the dead girl. After Martha makes some friends at school she finds out that her new home (the old Bedford house) is supposedly haunted. Also living in the house is Sally's son, (Martha's stepbrother) Conor, who is a year older than sixteen-year-old Martha. It's dark and creepy with shadows in the corners, her bedroom is abnormally cold, and she feels as if she's being watched. When Martha and her Dad arrive at the house, which is isolated in the woods, Martha really hates the house.

Martha's Dad has just remarried, and his new wife, Sally, has found a perfect house for them to move into.

Trick or treat by richie tankersley cusick