If you are thinking about buying House of Dark Shadows, you may want to go ahead and grab Watcher in the Woods because once you reach... "Not the end" you are going to want book two within reach. These books are quick reads, too. Don't say you haven't been warned if you have to wait for the next book, and don't expect a resolution of the King family problems in book two either. I may have to have a word with Bob or the publisher...
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I am always looking for that next amazing young adult fantasy that will just leave me stunned. After racing through Robert Liparulo's HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS in roughly a day or two, I can say that I have found it. The story blasts to a start with an insanely creepy prologue as we watch a mother ripped from her family by an unknown assailant, who then disappears deep within their own Victorian house -- not to be found again...
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An abandoned house, with mysterious rooms, and unnerving sounds. Huge foot prints, odd entrances, and bizarre clearings. Overall, not a place an ideal home for most people, but it is for the King family. When his dad accepts a new job in Pinedale, Xander is just a little miffed. Leaving behind his friends and all he knows for a spot in the middle of nowhere. Why he's leaving, he doesn't quite understand, but when asked...
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This is yet another great book by Robert Liparulo. I was glad to see him write for a younger audience so I could share one of my favorite authors with my students at the school where I teach. The story starts out in the past and the reader quickly gets a taste of the evil that can come out of the house. Thirty years later a family moves to town and buys the house not knowing the peril they will soon face. Adventure and...
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Xander King is seriously bummed when his family moves from Pasadena, CA to a little hick town called Pinedale. He loved his life back home and can't imagine what this new town and new school could possibly have to offer. When the King's arrive they begin searching for a house to buy and finally stumble across an old, abandoned Victorian home deep in the woods. Xander's parents instantly fall in love with the old house and...
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