Pumpkin Roll
By: Josi S. Kilpack
That looks like a delicious roll of stomachache (I’m lactose
intolerant, and all that cream would make my stomach to backflips and
somersaults at the same time). That’s
exactly how Sadie’s stomach feels as she delves deeper into her first ever
ghost mystery. There’s only one
problem: Sadie doesn’t believe in ghosts.
Summary
Pete and Sadie are babysitting Pete’s grandsons in Boston
for a few days when the neighbor across the street starts digging in her front
yard and makes weird hand motions.
Pete’s grandsons say she’s a witch.
Sadie doesn’t buy it even when strange things start happening in the
house. Sadie attempts to meet her
neighbor, thinking she is causing the strange things to happen. Soon Sadie is delving into a mystery that may
be too big for her to handle. After all,
how to you solve a ghost mystery when you don’t believe in them? Things get really tricky when the witch lady
is found injured in her home and Sadie becomes a suspect. Further, Jane keeps popping up, wanting to
help Sadie. Sadie is still reluctant to
let Jane into her life after she printed the article that sent Sadie’s
reputation spiraling downward.
A Different Twist
This is the first book in the Sadie Hoffmiller series where
there isn’t a dead body. It’s more than
just solving who killed some stranger (as it has been since book two). It’s about what is happening in Sadie’s
life. Things are happening to Sadie and company rather than to
someone else, which made the story more intense. As the book winds down Sadie must use all her
mental strength and wit to survive. In
the past she usually had to endure physically until help arrived.
A past character, Jane, shows up and plays a significant
role in Pumpkin Roll. Jane changes Sadie’s life, therefore changing
the series and the story line of all books following Pumpkin Roll.
Pete and Sadie’s relationship is also explored more fully in
this book as well. In the past books
Pete popped in and out at various times.
In this book he is in the entire thing.
We get to see Sadie and Pete interact in almost every chapter, watching
their relationship strengthen.
Personal Review
Pumpkin Roll had
my stomach doing somersaults. It
probably helped that I read it in October, which made the creepiness ooze from
the pages. Even if I hadn’t read the
book in October I still would have enjoyed it.
I loved how it wasn’t a murder mystery book and how the things happening
throughout the book directly affected Sadie.
This was one of my favorite books in the series.
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