Middle School & High School
Tyne Greer is six
foot six; a high school basketball star who is hoping the game will be her
ticket out of the slum. She lives in a run-down building called The Zoo, where
her father is the superintendent. One day she discovers a crack in the wall of
an abandoned basement room. And sealed up in the wall is a girl’s body.
Horrified, she runs to get her dad. But after he goes to take a look, he comes
back and tells Tyne that nothing’s there. No girl. No body.
Tyne is sure it was
real and when she finds evidence that the body was moved from the hole in the
wall, she knows the only one who could have done it is her father.
But why?
What is her dad hiding?
When
I first found this book I didn’t realize Graham McNamee wrote it until later, I
didn’t know he was working on another book.
Graham
McNamee has taken a whole new step to scare his readers. He’s done serial
killers (Acceleration), he’s done monsters (Bonechiller), he’s done serial
killers with monsters (Beyond), but now the psycho killer just might be the
father. How scary is it to think that your own father is lying to you about
something like that.
Graham
McNamee once again creates incredible and smart-mouth characters to bring humor
to this nail-biting story. The character who brings the most comedic effect is
Tyne’s boyfriend, Stick, a boy with a huge appetite and no matter how much he
eats he still remains a ‘stick’. The dialogue between Stick and Tyne is
hilarious and I loved every conversation the two had. I wish my boyfriend and I
talked to each other like they do.
And…that’s
all four of Graham McNamee’s books. I don’t know if he’ll write another one but
if he does I hope to write a review about it.
*****
Well,
this is my last October post. I hope you enjoyed it. These books prepared me
for future books even more disturbing than the ones I’ve written about. I won’t
write posts for those books, I don’t want to scar anyone who can’t handle it. I
would know, I used to be that person. I still am at times. If you’re interested
in more disturbing books you’ll have to find them yourself.
