Rating: 2.5 Stars
Synopsis: "A hilarious new ghostly adventure story from the award-winning writer of BEAST and SPARKS. Donald can see, hear and chat with ghosts. So can his mum, but she isn't very good at it (not that she knows that, so don't tell her). She's often called to help solve ghostly problems, like ridding the local supermarket of a ghoulish flip-flopping display of reanimated fish. Donald actually solves the problems himself by having a chat with the ghosts, but he pretends it was his mum, just to be nice. But now some sort of ancient monster ghost has turned up and seems like it wants to cause a lot of trouble. And this monster ghost doesn't want to talk."
This book was sent to me in exchange to an honest review, so I'm going to be totally honest about it while I'm "reviewing" it.
I don't really know what to say about it, in my opinion it was not a great book, I can't even say that it was a great story...This story was meant to be read by children, which means that adults and teenagers can also read it but they can dislike it easier than a kid because it really is a story written for kids.
This story is about a boy named Donald who is 11 years old and he can see and talk with ghosts like his mom also do, but he is better doing it, so even if his mom is a medium he's the one who's doing the entire job.
Donald's dad died when he was younger but because he can see and talk to the dead he talks to his dad everytime he wants to.
Basically Donald is one of those kids who actually solve their problems without help, I mean... he solves some problems just having a chat with ghosts.
Everything seemed to be calm when a new ghost showed up, a monster ghost who doesn't want to go away.
So obviously that this is a small story, this is a simple/easy reading... I (and this is my sincere opinion) can't consider it a horror, scary, spooky book or anything like that...
The thing is that overall I didn't hate it... I didn't dislike it that much... so let's say that I'm not happy with it, but I can't criticize too much since it is supposed to make children happy and not make ME happy. Just because of that I'm not going to give to it only 2 stars... I'm going to give to this book 2.5 stars, which honestly isn't that bad considering my opinion about it... basically that 0.5 star is going to exist because MAYBE, and just maybe, children will like it more than I did, and I honestly believe that this is not a bad story, it just wasn't written for me.
I don't really know what to say about it, in my opinion it was not a great book, I can't even say that it was a great story...This story was meant to be read by children, which means that adults and teenagers can also read it but they can dislike it easier than a kid because it really is a story written for kids.
This story is about a boy named Donald who is 11 years old and he can see and talk with ghosts like his mom also do, but he is better doing it, so even if his mom is a medium he's the one who's doing the entire job.
Donald's dad died when he was younger but because he can see and talk to the dead he talks to his dad everytime he wants to.
Basically Donald is one of those kids who actually solve their problems without help, I mean... he solves some problems just having a chat with ghosts.
Everything seemed to be calm when a new ghost showed up, a monster ghost who doesn't want to go away.
So obviously that this is a small story, this is a simple/easy reading... I (and this is my sincere opinion) can't consider it a horror, scary, spooky book or anything like that...
The thing is that overall I didn't hate it... I didn't dislike it that much... so let's say that I'm not happy with it, but I can't criticize too much since it is supposed to make children happy and not make ME happy. Just because of that I'm not going to give to it only 2 stars... I'm going to give to this book 2.5 stars, which honestly isn't that bad considering my opinion about it... basically that 0.5 star is going to exist because MAYBE, and just maybe, children will like it more than I did, and I honestly believe that this is not a bad story, it just wasn't written for me.
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