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A review by disconightwing
Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore
5.0
This book is like a cross between a romance and an episode of Scooby Doo. In the end, I think I was reading more for the romance than the mystery, which was... well, like an episode of Scooby Doo.
I loved the main character, Amy. She was easy to identify with. I liked her struggle to keep the normal part of her life from crossing over with the paranormal part. Her relationship Phin was very realistic too, as was her relationship with Ben, the hot cowboy love interest neighbor.
This is is a pretty hard review to write, because how do you summarize a book that starts with the main character speculating about how she didn't know goats could climb trees and then yells at cows in her underwear, yet who is still smart enough to be in college at seventeen and responsible enough to be left in charge of a farm over the summer? You really don't.
The setting, small-town Texas, really has the potential to devolve into a stereotype, but it doesn't. It keeps from going there and yet I had no problem at all picturing small-town Texas. I read a book earlier this year where the author mentioned the setting (Long Island) something like 37 times in the first 2 chapters and it really drove me nuts. I didn't like feeling clubbed on the head with it. This book manages not to do that, without losing its location. I liked that.
Every character in this book was well-rounded and human, and I love that! There were quite a few but they were all individuals and all unique without overcrowding the book.
I loved the main character, Amy. She was easy to identify with. I liked her struggle to keep the normal part of her life from crossing over with the paranormal part. Her relationship Phin was very realistic too, as was her relationship with Ben, the hot cowboy love interest neighbor.
This is is a pretty hard review to write, because how do you summarize a book that starts with the main character speculating about how she didn't know goats could climb trees and then yells at cows in her underwear, yet who is still smart enough to be in college at seventeen and responsible enough to be left in charge of a farm over the summer? You really don't.
The setting, small-town Texas, really has the potential to devolve into a stereotype, but it doesn't. It keeps from going there and yet I had no problem at all picturing small-town Texas. I read a book earlier this year where the author mentioned the setting (Long Island) something like 37 times in the first 2 chapters and it really drove me nuts. I didn't like feeling clubbed on the head with it. This book manages not to do that, without losing its location. I liked that.
Every character in this book was well-rounded and human, and I love that! There were quite a few but they were all individuals and all unique without overcrowding the book.