The House Of Reckoning is a story about 14 year old Sarah Crane. She is forced to grow up quickly to help tend her family’s Vermont farm after the untimely death of her mother. Her grieving father drowns his sorrows in alcohol. Sarah’s life is turned upside down when her father is jailed for killing another man in a drunken barroom brawl and injuring Sarah in a drunken crash.
She is left in the care of an unloving and cold foster family who only took her in for the money they received from the state. Sarah is also made fun of at school because of the limp that she has as a result of her father hitting her with his truck.
Her only friends are her classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient that hears voices and has visions. And an unusual art teacher Bettina Phillips, who is eager to nurture her talent for painting. Sarah keeps painting horrible images from Bettina’s ancestral mansion called Shutters and Nick keeps hearing the voices and having hallucinations. But the voices quiet down whenever he’s around Sarah. The ghosts in Sutters now inflict harm on anyone who means to do harm to the inhabitants of the house.
I liked how Sutters wasn’t just an ordinary house, but a house haunted by the spirits of the mental patients who lived there. I enjoyed reading about the house’s history and how one very sick man actions brought forth something evil. The house itself was so entertaining that it became its own personal character. The book had a neat plot twist involving Sarah’s family that I didn’t see coming. I also liked when Nick realized that he wasn’t crazy and that the voices he heard and the hallucinations he was having were a result of Sutters being haunted.
I liked how Sutters wasn’t just an ordinary house, but a house haunted by the spirits of the mental patients who lived there. I enjoyed reading about the house’s history and how one very sick man actions brought forth something evil. The house itself was so entertaining that it became its own personal character. The book had a neat plot twist involving Sarah’s family that I didn’t see coming. I also liked when Nick realized that he wasn’t crazy and that the voices he heard and the hallucinations he was having were a result of Sutters being haunted.
My favorite character was Sarah because she refused to give up no matter how unfair her life got. The secondary characters were crucial to driving the plot of this book. All the people who did mean and terrible things were punished in inventive ways. The House of Reckoning was a good book and very creepy. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed reading this book.
Reviewed by Patricia, First Regional Library
Reviewed by Patricia, First Regional Library
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