Monday, October 28, 2019

Dead Voices by Katherine Arden - ADVISABLE


Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2) by Katherine Arden, 236 pages.  Putnam and Sons (Penguin), 2019. $17.  

Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.  

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – ADVISABLE  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH  

Ollie, Coco and Brian are three best friends who have survived weird happenings in the past, so when they end up at a ski lodge with Ollie’s dad and Coco’s mom, they aren’t surprised it’s haunted.  As Ollie and her friends start to see and hear things in the lodge it becomes clear that the hotel used to be an orphanage for girls and the headmistress is very mean.  When a reporter, Mr. Voland, shows up he starts to ghost hunt with the kids and things spookier.  

What a fun creepy story!  I like Arden’s ability to write a clean, spooky story without going overboard.  This setting was as much fun as her first book, Small Spaces, and the characters are endearing.  The violence is children who are locked in closets for misbehaving.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson.        

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