Between work and the holiday season right now I really have been too tired to focus on anything new so, I did what I usually do and I found something comfortable to re-read. I actually first read this book about six years ago and it quickly became one of my favourites. Links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to WhereEvilThoughts with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore is a YA (young adult) paranormal novel first published in 2011.įull disclosure – I’m cheating a little bit with this post because I didn’t actually read this book for the first time in these past couple of weeks. The plot is predictable, the mystery is solved, the good guys win (and hook up with someone!) and the bad guys escape remarkably unscathed in order to be punished by the police – probably! It is a fairly light, clean and clear teen/young adult fiction book which is probably far tamer than most teenager’s real lives!Ĭopyright © WhereEvilThoughts 2013 – excluding pictures! Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. In that regard it is reminiscent of the Nancy Drew books that I vaguely remember reading when I was younger – quickly abandoning them for the Hardy Boys books on the grounds that they didn’t actively reinforce dull stereotypes femininity via the medium of a privileged white girl playing detective!Īmy’s personality isn’t as drawn out as much as I expected and she seems to need very clue to be written in ten foot high letters before she actually grasps that it might be important! Her relationship with the guy next door is a bit weird, apparently him being good looking means she can ignore him being an ass. The book is fairly dated compared to anything that I’ve read in years – it is set in a snapshot of Summer with a very mild haunting I can’t stress how mild the horror is there no blood, no fresh-bodies, no screams in the night or even anything more than extremely mild peril. However being normal not only take effort, it also requires the right circumstances – which certainly isn’t what is being thrown at Amy! The Goodnights are witches, nice-sounding hippy-style witches who sell suitably wibbly named bath productsĪmy and her sister Phin house-sitting their Aunt’s ranch in Texas, with Amy being the ‘normal’ one of the family. Rosemary Clement-Moore’s ‘Texas Gothic’ had a striking cover and a strong opener, it is also the first book in the Goodnight Family Series.
However I should know to be wary of strong opening pages. As an opening line “the goat was in the tree again” is pretty eye-catching.
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