Saturday, September 29, 2018

The House With a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs

The House With a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs - 179 pages

When Lewis meets his uncle Jonathan he is amazed to discover he is a witch.  He loves watching the magic Jonathan and his friend Mrs. Zimmerman do.  But then he tries some magic of his own.  He's shocked when it works and he raises an evil witch from the dead.  Now they must somehow stop the evil witch from using a clock to bring around the end of the world.

I read this as the movie was coming out and a colleague went on and on about how it was her favorite book as a kid.  Honestly, I was not a fan.  If I hadn't determined to read it because of the movie, I would have put the book down pretty quickly and never returned to it.  I never really came to care about the characters and I didn't really think it was all that scary.

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