BOOK REVIEW: The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
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Publisher: Penguin
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Synopsis
Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns twelve, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined.
Review:
This is a creepy atmospheric read. When Alice and her friends go in search
of a lost village to discover what happened to the residents they get more
than they bargained for. Alices grandmother disappeared along with her
Aunt and the rest of the villagers and no one knows where they went and no
trace has ever been found. The only thing left was a newborn infant and a
woman tied to a post who had been stoned to death.
One of the other women who made the journey is related to that abandoned
infant. Hoping that she can find answers to her ancestry as well. Then
things start to go very wrong and everyone is a suspect.
This book is written in Then and Now which helps to see what the town was
like before and does give you resolution as to what happened to the village.
The Now is creepy and dramatic, the Then is just as creepy but also
scary in a very real way. I can totally see a movie or a tv show out
of this book.
Excellent debut for this authors 1st translated book.
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