The book’s best feature is the setting: an old hotel that serves as a winter vacation spot, which the author describes well. It moves slowly-very slowly at first-and picks up the pace toward the end, culminating in some grisly scenes with a corpse-ghost. She does word puzzles with a young inventor named Freddy and visits a giant library in the hotel staffed by a librarian from Uganda. She also talks a lot about her love of reading and word puzzles. Elizabeth talks of her parents who died when she was 4 and recalls being mistreated by her aunt and uncle. And - don't tell this part - an evil ghost tries to come back to life and kill with witchy powers. Spoiler alert (regrettable, but so parents grasp the level of scariness Winterhouse builds up to, since tweens' abilities to handle scary stuff vary greatly): There are curses, sudden noises or things falling, lights that chase people, and also a coffin that makes banging noises. The mystery begins focused on puzzles and code-breaking, but shifts into spooky stuff. A bookish girl named Elizabeth travels there alone for the winter holidays. Parents need to know that Winterhouse is the first book in a trilogy set in a remote fancy hotel. Mention of Elizabeth's uncle drinking beer.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. At a holiday celebration, adults get champagne and kids get sparkling cider.
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