Haunting of Sunshine Girl [Black Friday Signed Edition, B&N]

No cover — Paige McKenzie, Alyssa Sheinmel: Haunting of Sunshine Girl [Black Friday Signed Edition, B&N] (2015, Running Press)

English language

Published June 23, 2015 by Running Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-60286-310-1

(1 review)

Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn't recognize it, Sunshine knows that something about their new house is just ... creepy.

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5 stars

I had never heard of the Youtube channel when NetGalley offered the novelization of The Haunting of Sunshine Girl to me in an ARC, but the description intrigued me so I thought I would read the book first and then investigate the videos if I liked what I read.

Horror is a tricky genre, and so I came in with low expectations. When horror is well-written I'm a huge fan but so many books make me want to throw them across the room and stop reading. I'm happy to be wrong here. This book held my interest long beyond where so many horror books lose me. Our characters remained believable, consistent people who did not suddenly morph into idiots sealing their fate. I continued to care about what happened to them right up until the last page. When mythology was introduced to explain why certain events occured, the style remained …

I had never heard of the Youtube channel when NetGalley offered the novelization of The Haunting of Sunshine Girl to me in an ARC, but the description intrigued me so I thought I would read the book first and then investigate the videos if I liked what I read.

Horror is a tricky genre, and so I came in with low expectations. When horror is well-written I'm a huge fan but so many books make me want to throw them across the room and stop reading. I'm happy to be wrong here. This book held my interest long beyond where so many horror books lose me. Our characters remained believable, consistent people who did not suddenly morph into idiots sealing their fate. I continued to care about what happened to them right up until the last page. When mythology was introduced to explain why certain events occured, the style remained consistent. Unlike so many of its kind, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl was able to maintain a 21st century young adult style while introducing a bit of ancient Celtic mythology. It didn't slip into stilted archaisms as so many books do. There was a pleasantly light tough used. Style and substance blended pretty seamlessly. The slow build of suspense did not grind to a screeching halt once Sunshine's friend Nolan started explaining his research. The pacing was handled very nicely and it kept me turning pages until my eyes got dry and I reached the end. Well done!

Well, enough about how I loved the book. I'm off to Youtube.