Mary Downing Hahn's Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Mary Downing Hahn's Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Plot: Just before summer begins, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph. She recognizes the two children. One's her mother, the other her aunt Dulcie ... but who is the third person, the one who's been torn out of the picture? Ali will have two months to figure it out, since she's spending the summer with her aunt and her cousin in the same house her mom and aunt used to visit when they were kids.

Then Ali meets Sissy. Sissy is mean, spiteful, and determined to ruin Ali's summer. Sissy also has a secret. Could it have something to do with the old photo? Ali is dying to find out. Though, is she's not careful, that's exactly what might happen to her - die, that is.

My Review and Thoughts:

Classic creepy tale of deep dark secrets and mystery running wild. A page turner in trying to figure out what is the truth and what will the outcome be. This is a great suspenseful tale and most of all it has the spine tingling reality and that eerie atmosphere of what is happening. Hahn is able to grab the reader in the chilly reality of the tension that ghost stories are about, those classic ghost type stories of thick mystery and a hair raising ordeal.

This is like those deep secrets and lies hidden inside a family secret. That "Did you hear about the story of..." or "Where not suppose to talk about that..." or "Remember silence..".

The writing is great in that each character is written out with emotions such as the attitude shows or the situation and atmosphere are all written out giving it a story that flows to capture a complete tale. Ali is a 13 year-old girl that readers can relate to with her questions and seeking answers and wanting to know the mystery of the torn picture and so on, the whole story comes together as a tale needing to be told.

Hahn gives you just enough mystery for you to tag along chapter after chapter. The spooky reality and the tense ordeal of a death and a ghost and cover up like situation displays the very eerie moments throughout the book. You as the reader guess what’s going on in the first 70 pages but just what the outcome and the truth of the past ordeal is, is unknown which pulls you along to solve the puzzle of the eerie tale that gets under your skin at times and plays and gives you goosebumps upon your flesh.

A great book, a simple fun read for ghost lovers of all ages. The page after page ordeal leading up to the truth is filled with creepy moments that stand out and when the truth finally comes to light the tone of the book changes and you feel a certain compassion in the ordeal and the emotions switch gears as the true reality of the ghost and the past secrets and lies comes to the light to close the story.

Kind of like Nancy Drew mixed with an episode of Ghost Whisperer. The story is one the reader can understand with out having to guess or over destroy your mind to figure it out making this a fun perfect little read of that I really enjoyed and felt I became apart of it.

A great story, great characters, great spooks, great settings, a great read.