You’ll end up losing people you care about. Never stop to rest in an old Victorian hotel in the middle of nowhere. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.įirst sentence: “The sound was faint at first.” I received this book for free from Macmillan for review consideration. Will the girls be able to solve the mystery of what happened to Kara’s family before it’s too late? When Kara’s parents and then brother disappear without a trace, the girls are stranded in a hotel full of strange guests, hallways that twist back in on themselves, and a particularly nasty surprise lurking beneath the floorboards. They stop over at the first hotel they see, a Victorian inn that instantly gives Quinn the creeps, and she begins to notice strange things happening around them. When Quinn’s best friend Kara has to move away, she goes on one last trip with Kara and her family. She was caught cheating in school, and then one day, her little sister Emma disappeared while walking home from school. The Shining meets “Hotel California” in this supremely creepy middle grade novel about the bizarre things that happen to two girls stranded at a desert inn.Įleven-year-old Quinn has had some bad experiences lately. Website | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Book Depository | Indigo | Library The Inn Between is a quick read, and it was interesting, but I can’t say it’s going to be on the top of my list of books to recommend, simply because I felt neutral about most of it.The Inn-Between by Marina Cohen However, this is partially due to the fact that Cohen lays on the red herrings very strongly, so it didn’t seem like a plot twist so much as a random turn in a completely new direction. I will say that the ending of the book was not quite what I was expecting, and it’s always nice to actually be surprised by a children’s book (or any book). I also found the characters a bit flat, so even the friendship tale didn’t speak to me. It tries to sell itself as something that’s part mystery and part friendship story, since it’s about two girl’s trying to figure out why the rest of the family has disappeared from their hotel, but it’s also part paranormal and maybe part sci-fi and…there’s just a lot going on that doesn’t always mesh together. Unfortunately, beyond that, I didn’t find the book particularly interesting. Though it touches on themes that other middle grade books certainly do, the execution is not quite anything I’ve read before. Somewhere between “creepy” and “quirky,” I mostly just want to call it “unusual.” And, in my opinion, its originality is the novel’s strongest recommendation. I’m not quite sure how to describe The Inn Between. Will the girls be able to solve the mystery of what happened to Kara’s family before it’s too late? Review
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