Someone described this as a ‘thriller’ and it definitely fit that description (with the addition of ‘for kids’) which made the fact there was a monster for about five hot minutes feel like an early draft got grafted on.
But what’s REALLY important is that the monster serves an excellent post-script that made me laugh and so I don’t care. Viva the somewhat plot agnostic monster!
Ghost Twins: Mystery at Kickingbird Lake
Summary: The former home of the Ghost Twins, Robbie and Beka, and Thatch, the Ghost Dog, is now a rental at the Kickingbird Lake Resort. First visitors: the Shook Family. And a cat? Poor Thatch! The Shook kids find a treasure at the lake. It belongs to the Ghost Twins—and they want it back . . . .
So this is a fairly lighthearted and small ‘oh we’re just ghost kids having antics!’ book which was a perfectly fine quick read but it has the added bonus that if you read it from Kim Shook’s perspective, it’s actually a horror story where she nearly dies in a horrible accident… POSSIBLY CAUSED BY MURDER GHOSTS.
So definitely an A+ book and going on my horror shelf.