e-Audio, 05:33:45
Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
Release Date: August 20, 2024
Published by: Simon & Schuster Audio
Read from: August 12-14, 2024
Stand-alone
Source: Libro FM (I received a copy of this e-audio from the publisher in exchange for a just and honest review. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Child Death, Possession
For Readers Interested In: Ghosts, Squad Goals, Racial/Ethnic Diversity (Black), MG, ParanormalThe Baby-Sitters Club meets Stranger Things in this eerie middle grade novel about friendship, fitting in, and the afterlife, following a girl who discovers she’s not the only one at her new school who can see ghosts.
Wednesday Thomas sees ghosts. But that doesn’t mean she has to talk to them.
After a terrifying experience in an Arizona state park with a wicked ghost, Wednesday and her mother Olivia sell their RV and move back south to the family home in Alton, Georgia. Wednesday’s determined not to use her gift anymore—until she meets a group of girls who also know about the spirit realm.
There’s free-spirited Miki Okada and Southern belle Danni-Lynn Porter who seem to know about the ghosts who roam the school’s hallways, popular girl Alexa Scott who tells Wednesday to stay away from Miki and Danni-Lynn and not draw attention to herself, and mysterious neighbor Violet Delgado who died last year but still haunts the house across the street. Wednesday feels these girls have some kind of shared history, but it isn’t until Miki gives her an official invitation to the Dead Club that she starts to understand there’s a lot more going on with the ghosts in Alton and the girls who can see them.
And when another malevolent ghost threatens to harm Wednesday, it will take the help of new friends both living and dead to save her and banish the evil being to the spirit realm where it belongs.
*MY THOUGHTS*
This is exactly what I thought it would be when I saw this was described as The Babysitter’s Club meets Stranger Things lol It sounds weird, because it is. But it was also really, really good! And I really enjoyed this one!
Ok so bit about the Babysitter’s Club was spot on. There’s a club and they have meetings, but they don’t necessarily get calls. Unless you mean calls from the dead. Wednesday is kind of new to Alton and she has a secret. But when she meets Mili and Danni-Lynn, she realized its not so much a secret after all. She’s Which is strange because the secret she had? It’s seeing ghosts. But Miki and Danni-Lynn know that she can and invite her to their club. It was so cute!
What Wednesday doesn’t want to admit is the fact that something bad happened at the last place she was, so she doesn’t exactly want to talk to ghosts for a while. But then she meets the girls of the club….. And their ghost. Just when things are starting to feel back to normal, it seems there’s another malevolent ghost that she must banish. I was on the edge of my seat at this point. I don’t want to say who the ghost is for spoilers, so just know I was in shock lol
As for the creepy, I thought it was going to be super creepy because of the beginning (I mean they had a dead woman crawling on the ceiling?) But the rest of the book wasn’t nearly as creepy. This was a disappointment, but I had to remember this was a MG book lol So because of this, I wouldn’t say this was horror, but it was definitely a paranormal book with a little more on the spooky side.
This was a lot of fun! I do hope there’s a series here. I would love to see what other things they’re getting up to. And I really am interested in seeing more creepy in them. And I’m interested in how the other girls know everything. I just need more!
Overall, I give this
