Amber had to get away from her home, her mum, her step sister (Poppy), She had to start a new life! When Amber arrives, its not as she had expected, She finds it hard to get a job, the other house mates think she’s timid, anxious and wet and she can’t bring her self to tell her mum and Poppy that she had planned to stay in Cornwall forever.
The longer She stays there, the more on the edge she feels, she thinks she’s loosing it, going mad, she senses things, her bedroom window rattles at night. The attics above her room are full of ancient Victorian and Edwardian furniture, including a antique rocking chair which rocks back and forth throughout the night, above Ambers head. Amber can’t bare the eerie elderly who lives at number eleven, she stands outside the student house and gives abnormal speeches to all of the lodgers in the house, Including Amber!
One day, Amber falls ill with tonsillitis and every-thing becomes too much for her, she feels she can no longer handle it.After awakening in hospital Amber found her mum and Poppy had come down to check on her due to her illness. However, once Amber had recovered and left the hospital, Poppy did not return home with their mum, she remained in
17 Merrel Road with Amber and the other Student lodgers.Poppy moved into the far attic the one of which the antique rocking chair was present in. At first, Everything went well, it was a welcoming atmosphere, welcoming poppy. However, Poppy turned up-side down, became un-controllable, un-bareable. She became the woman who had lived in that very attic room in which poppy had moved into. She was now Ivy Skinner!
I thought this book was a thrilling, enjoyable, engrossing read. The best book i have read for a long time. I could not put it down, Kate (the writer) Really made me feel as though I were Amber, Which really engaged me.
I would recommend this book to any-one who likes a grasping teen horror!
My Rating: *****= 5/5
Ashleigh 8c
