Book Blog Post #6

I finished A Deadly Game of Magic. Now I'm reading The Séance. It's about a girl named Lauren who lives with her Aunt Mel because her parents died. A girl named Sara is also living with them (she's a foster child). The two of them are the same age but Lauren doesn't really like Sara because they're both so different. Anyway, Sara mentioned to Lauren that there's this girl, Roberta, who goes to school with them that can contact spirits and she said that she does séances. Lauren doesn't want any part of it, but then they have a meeting about it at the lunch table with Roberta and Lauren's friends Allie, Luemma, Dana, and Maddie. They talk Lauren into it, saying that it will be fun.

So one night they all go to Roberta's house because her parents aren't home. They lock all the doors and windows, light a candle, then start the séance. Roberta starts telling them about things that will happen to each of them. Meanwhile, Lauren gets the feeling that it's not just a game and that they shouldn't be doing it. Right after she thinks that, Sara gets up and starts screaming that something's wrong. Then she falls on the candle and the room is dark. They all start to panic until they manage to light the candle again and turn the lamp on. When they do, they see that Sara is gone and all the doors and windows are still locked. They call the sheriff and when he comes they tell him everything. He concludes that he thinks Sara ran away (Lauren told him she would always sneak out of the house at night) and takes the girls home. The next day a hunter finds Sara's body in the swamp. Aunt Mel tells Lauren and Allie that the autopsy showed that she drowned. That's where I left off.

Book Blog Post #5

Since my last post, some things have happened. While the teens were in the kitchen, they heard something whining by the busted door. They opened it and there was a dog there. They let the dog in and it took up to Bo. They all talked for a while, and then they noticed that the dog was gone. Julian and Bo went to the bathroom while Lisa and Teena stayed in the kitchen. Eventually Julian came back, without Bo. He told them that Bo went to look for the dog by himself and didn't come back. So the three of them went to look for Bo.

All this while, they were trying to figure out who's in the house with them. Some one's been doing magic tricks right in front of them (it scared them, so that's why they went from the living room to the kitchen), but they can't see who's doing it because it's too dark (the storm knocked the electricity out). They think it might be Miss Gracie Ella. After all, when they went to look for Bo, they found a car in the garage that they thought was hers. The dog was in the car, but not Bo. So they kept looking and eventually found him. He was in a chair and it looked like just his head was on it, but it was just an illusion (Lisa knows a lot of stuff about magic). Someone had knocked him out and put him there. I left off where they locked themselves in one of the rooms. They no longer think it's Miss Gracie Ella in the house. They think it's her magician husband. They think that he never actually died and that he's in the house. I really need to find out what happens! This book is keeping me in suspense!