Summer of Fear
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Summer of Fear
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Narrated by:
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Ruth Ann Phimister
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By:
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Lois Duncan
A teen suspects her orphaned cousin may be a witch in this YA horror classic by the bestselling author of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The basis for the 1978 Wes Craven film.
"Filled with suspense and questions about the nature of evil in the world around us, Summer of Fear will cast a spell over both teens and adults."—School Library Journal
From the moment Rachel's family takes in her orphaned cousin Julia, strange things start to happen. Rachel grows suspicious but soon finds herself alienated from her own life. Julia seems to have enchanted everyone to turn against her, leaving Rachel on her own to try and prove that Julia is a witch. One thing about Julia is certain—she is not who she says she is, and Rachel's family is in grave danger.
©1976 Lois Duncan (P)1998 Recorded BooksWithout giving the story away, I’ll tell you it’s every bit as good as I remember! The main themes are absolutely the stuff of teenaged angst: identity; loss; alienation; insecurity; jealousy; love and friendship etc etc and Duncan describes the tumult perfectly, wrapped in just enough horror and thrill to make Summer of Fear a really gripping story for its target audience.
What got in the way, for me at least, is the narrator, whose voice (though lovely), is just too old for the characters. There’s something jarring about a middle aged actor putting on a squeaky voice to narrate in the first person. It’s a mismatch.
Good story spoiled by the wrong narrator
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