Book Review for Read-a-thon book #5: The Whitby Witches

Book: The Whitby Witches (The Whitby Witches book #1) by Robin Jarvis

Source: Library

Rating: 2 stars (Did Not Finish)

Review:

I can describe this book in one word: boring.

The story is about two young orphans, eight years old Ben and his older sister Jennet who have been shuttled from foster home to foster home due some difficulty with Ben. The little boy has the ability to see ghosts but the problems arise whenever he tells someone (other than his sister) about them. They are usually so freaked out that the two siblings are soon packed up and sent away.

There most recent foster home with an older lady Mrs. Alice Boston who is a friend of their Aunt. Things are going fine for the kids until one day Alice has a group of friends over while the children are upstairs. But Ben was woken by the ghost of his mother who tried to tell him something but he couldn't understand. So instead of trying to communicate with him, she directs him to open his room door to go downstairs but as soon as Ben opened the door there were wall to wall ghosts in the house all leading towards the room that Alice and her friends were in.

Been was so scared that he went to his sister who went to Mrs. Boston and as soon as the girl surprised the women by opening the door the ghosts disappeared.

The writing was really boring but there were at least two scenes that I thought the author did a good job with (the one above with the ghost in the hall). And the other was when Ben went into an abandoned home to get the cat of a friend of their new guardian. That scene had a really good scare factor to it. Because Ben could tell something was in there with him and it wasn't friendly and he was not going to stay there to see what it was.

Aside from those two scenes, the book was boring. The characters were boring and the story was very slow moving.