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I checked this out because I loved Roberts' The Girl with the Silver Eyes, which was one of her two SFF books. (The other is The Magic Book, which I have not read.) She was mostly a writer of children's thrillers, most famously The View From the Cherry Tree.
Megan and her younger brother Sandy have moved around a lot, as their single mom, a widow from before Megan can remember, often changes jobs. One day she abruptly uproots them in the middle of school and rushes them to her father's cabin by a lake. She refuses to explain anything and leaves them with him, saying she has something she needs to do and he's not to explain anything to them either. There's a cozy interval while Megan and Sandy explore an island in the lake, but Megan is understandably very worried and frustrated. Especially when their grandfather has to go to the hospital, leaving them alone, and strange men appear looking for them...
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It's... fine. Roberts has a nice easy-reading style. But I felt like it could have gone farther in both coziness and thrills, and the ending was pretty anticlimactic.
Megan and her younger brother Sandy have moved around a lot, as their single mom, a widow from before Megan can remember, often changes jobs. One day she abruptly uproots them in the middle of school and rushes them to her father's cabin by a lake. She refuses to explain anything and leaves them with him, saying she has something she needs to do and he's not to explain anything to them either. There's a cozy interval while Megan and Sandy explore an island in the lake, but Megan is understandably very worried and frustrated. Especially when their grandfather has to go to the hospital, leaving them alone, and strange men appear looking for them...
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It's... fine. Roberts has a nice easy-reading style. But I felt like it could have gone farther in both coziness and thrills, and the ending was pretty anticlimactic.
