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From the moment she stepped through the doorway of her family's new home, Sarah sensed something cold and frightening. Her fears are heightened by the echo of a scream and a heartbreaking whisper in Spanish, Help me!
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
After Sarah Darnell's near-drowning, she feels haunted by a shadowy ghost-like presence. So when her father announces he is being transferred to Houston, the family welcomes the opportunity to put Sarah's tragic experience behind them. But the moment Sarah enters their new house, she is paralyzed by a cold mist that is only apparent to her. And she is convinced something horrible has happened in that house. Her fears are confirmed when she learns that the previous owner's son had been charged with murdering a delivery girl, and the maid had mysteriously disappeared. But nothing prepares Sarah for the cruel trick perpetrated by a new friend--a trick that backfires and endangers Sarah's life. A master at creating compelling suspense novels, Nixon ( The Dark and Deadly Pool ) has written yet another carefully plotted, subtly terrifying thriller. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Fiction: MY Age: YA Ghostly encounters in her new home and a nearly fatal attraction to an enigmatic young man enmesh sixteen-year-old Sarah Darnell in the sordid events of an unsolved murder. The first-person narrative is trite; and events are somewhat predictable; but the book reads quickly. Horn Rating: Recommended, satisfactory in style, content, and/or illustration. Reviewed by: mab (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Sensitized to the next world by her own near-death by drowning, Sarah is the frightened recipient of pleas and warnings from an unhappy presence in her family's new upscale, bargain-priced home in Houston. No one--including his real-estate agent, who lives next door--has told Dad about the grisly murder of two years ago, when the previous owners'teen-age son, Adam, inexplicably killed Darlene, a girl who came to make a delivery. Though he confessed, Adam is free on a technicality peculiar to Texas law. But the warnings Sarah receives are in Spanish, apparently from Rosa, an illegal alien employed in the house years before; no one seems to be willing to say what has become of her. As Sarah comes closer to the truth, Nixon keeps the reader one step ahead of her with the tried-and-true device of a killer that the heroine recognizes only when it may be too late. The skillful telling here, with such carefully developed details as Sarah's reluctance to confide in parents or friends since her earlier description of an out-of-body experience was met with incredulity, should hold readers fast until the satisfying conclusion. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Teenage Sarah nearly dies in a drowning accident and then finds herself in touch with another world. When her family moves to the Houston area, she feels there is something bloody and terrible in their house, and she hears a desperate cry for help from a Spanish girl who was murdered in the house two years earlier. With the ghost providing clues at convenient intervals, Sarah begins to unravel the mystery as the killer stalks her. Even die-hard Nixon fans will find this a little overblown and predictable, with one-dimensional characters, constant shivers wiggling up and down the heroine's spine, and heavy hints that the seductive, mustachioed guy with "a voice as soft as dark silk" is not what he seems. But the pace is fast, with language accessible to reluctant readers, and the haunted house is a pleasant brush with the occult. Gr. 7-12. --Hazel Rochman