"Rock-A-Bye Christy, on witch's hill,
When the wind blows, the patients will kill,
When the nurse comes, I'll pretend I'm asleep,
And shoot her with needles so she won't make a peep."
This is my all-time favorite book. I'm not done with I Am the Messenger quite yet, and I ran out of things to talk about on that one, so I'll just talk about my favorite book in forever. This book kind of introduced me to the horror genre, and I love horror books now because of it. Honestly, it scared me a lot (I was a wimp) when I read it. It's about six high school kids that go into this haunted asylum, which actually does exist, it's called Danver's State Hospital, on the eve of its demolition to record a movie of their adventures for various reasons; one goes in for kicks, two in because they want to become big-shot actors, one is looking for any remembrance of her grandmother, another needs it for her college resume, and the other needs it for his future to not be flipping burgers.
The tale is wonderfully woven, and written by one of my favorites, Laurie Faria Stolarz. She writes from the perspective of each character for each chapter, and she doesn't do it blandly. What I mean is, she doesn't use the same writing style for any of the characters when she writes in their perspective. For example, one of them is written like a Screenplay.
Some would call it scary, other's wouldn't. It's kind of like a roller coaster ride, some people will love it, some will think nothing of it, and some will cry because it's just too much. It's a ghost story, so no gory scenes were depicted in it. It doesn't really make you want to go, "EW. OUCH." it sort of just makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
I highly recommend it for anyone who's looking for a thrill. I also suggest Stolarz's other books, like the Blue is for Nightmares series.
(AndnotBleed. Don't read Bleed.)
That sounds like an interesting book. On a side note you have very creative ways of writing your blog that kept me interested throughout and I was able to get a view of what the story was about.
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