The Girl In The Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn193 pages
Reviewed by Rae C.
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Jules is tired of moving, and she hates the creepy old houses that they live in while her father renovates. The dad is a total narcissist. The mom's a writer and really self absorbed. Both parents lack any supernatural gifts. Jules is a psychic and medium, although she doesn't know it. She's felt things and seen spirits in other houses, but thinks it is her imagination. But this time, Jules finds more and more evidence that Lily, the girl in the locked room, was real, and that she needs Jules help to cross over.
Really well done supernatural thriller! It's not super scary, or horror. Just an old-fashioned ghost story. It's well written and paced, well plotted, and the ending is satisfying in terms of issues with Jules' family, but the ghost story had a somewhat sloppy resolution. (See below if you don't mind spoilers.) But the complaints I have weren't enough to spoil my enjoyment of this book!
(****SPOILERS**** and complaints: the inclusion of Frozen Charlotte dolls for no reason; relying on Dianna Wynne Jones alternate reality theory but not explaining clearly why Lily's bones weren't in the wardrobe, and thus, how two Lily's would now be inhabiting the alternate world.)
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