eARC review of The Girl in White by Lindsay Currie

 

I recieved this book from Netgalley for an honest and fair review!

Title: The Girl in White 

Author: Lindsay Currie

Publisher: Sourcebook Kids

Rating: 4 stars

For fans of Small Spaces and the Goosebumps series by R.L Stine comes a chilling story about a twelve-year old girl who must face down the most notorious ghost in her haunted East coast town to stop a centuries-old curse that threatens to destroy everything.

Mallory hasn't quite adapted to life in her new town of Eastport yet. Maybe it's because everyone is obsessed with keeping the town's reputation as the most cursed town in the US.

And thanks to the nightmares she's had since arriving, Mallory hardly sleeps. Combined with the unsettling sensation of being watched, she's quickly becoming convinced there's more to her town. Something darker.

When Mallory has a terrifying encounter with the same old woman from her dreams, she knows she has to do something—but what? With Eastport gearing up to celebrate the anniversary of their first recorded legend Mallory is forced to investigate the one legend she's always secretly been afraid of . . . Sweet Molly.

I am a fan of this author so I was fairly sure this book would not disappoint and I was correct! This book has a perfect blind of spooky and atmospheric elements to be a fun spooky middle grade!

Mallory is not a fan of the town of Eastport her parents moved her too. She hates that it's pretty much Halloween all the time. The town lives on it's curses and lore as that is how it makes it's money. Mallory's friend Emmie who has lived there all her life is probably the only one there who tries to prove the stories aren't true and that is pretty much why they make good friends. 

Mallory has been having really creepy dreams since she has been in town but things start ramping up the closer they get to the towns big celibration. Something spooky happens and she ends up finding out that someone else is having bad dreams too, her neighbor Joshua. 

So Mallory and her friends have to work to figure out why her and Joshua are having bad dreams of an old lady and why she keeps coming after them in some frightening not dream ways. 

This was a lot of fun, super creepy and atmostpheric. I really had some fun spooky ghost moments and I really liked the characters in the story and how they worked to try and figure things out. 

I think this book could creepy out some adults who don't do spooky well, so do make sure than your young readers can handle getting really creepy out at times. (Like a scary ghost lady coming out of the shower spooky)

Highly recommend this to young readers who love to be scared!