Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn


I didn't like this book as much as The Old Willis Place, the last ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn. The mystery starts off well enough. 13-year-old Ali finds a photo of her mother and her mother's sister, her aunt Dulcie, and a third girl who's been torn out of the picture. Her mother, who is a nervous and/or sickly person who spends most of her time in her bedroom, denies knowing who the third girl might have been. Then Aunt Dulcie invites Ali to spend the summer babysitting her 6-year-old cousin at the old lake house where the picture was taken, a house that Ali's mother refuses to return to. Ali's father convinces her mother to let her go, and Ali is eager to get a break from her overprotective mother. Ali loves the lake, and she loves taking care of her cousin, but she doesn't think much of the strange girl, Sissy, who appears and makes befriends Emma. Scary things start to happen, and Aunt Dulcie doesn't believe Ali when she tries to explain. The book is kind of creepy, as it should be, but the characters are not quite believable. Review by Stacy Church

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

i hate books but really i loved deep and dark and dangerous the book realy pulled me into it like i was there with them and i felt sissys cold hands on my mine mary downing hahn is an awsome writer and this story had so much detail it was unreal

Anonymous said...

i loved this book,& i still do,i wonder y no one has made a movie out of it,or "The Doll In The Garden", i definitely plan on getting more Mary Downing Hahn books!!!! I'm an avid reader.

Anonymous said...

I really love all of her books but I think this one is my FAVORITE!!!
:-)

libbylu606 said...

This is my farorite book ever! I am with Anonymous, Why doesn't somebody make this book into a movie? I mean like kids/teens would love to see this movie. I also love the old willis place

Anonymous said...

i love that book! i am a HUGE mary downing hahn fan!!! she is one of my fave authors. but i liked deep and dark and dangerous better than the old willis place. they are both great but if i had to choose one it'd be deep and dark and dangerous. i am reading wait till helen comes now. so far its good. it starts off like deep and dark and dangerous. bratty girl, another girl tries to act nice but it doesnt work. but this time there is a brother. they move with their mom to a church. where they see a grave yard with the same initials as the bratty girl(heather). its gr8 so far!! i hope they make this and deep and dark and dangerous into a movie!!! i <3 u mary downing hahn!!!

sierra dulsky said...

i love this book i like to read it over and over again i like to read this book when it is raining outside

Anonymous said...

i seriously dnt like reading books at all .!!!! but once i started to read this book i loved itt .! this book are one of my favorites .! i would go back nd reread this book a million timess .!!!!!=]

Anonymous said...

this was my favorite book and i usally dont like to read books but this is the best and i would totally recommend it

ashams123 said...

I would totally watch this if they made it into a movie. I have read this book more that six times now and it is my most favorite book. Seriously though, someone should make a movie out of it!!!!! Mary Hahn I'm talking to you, get someone to make a movie....please