This is the last book on January 2011 list, I made it!!
I love love this one. It's the first book of six in Dreamhouse Kings series, all six books have been published and I'm surprised I don't know about the books before. I heard it's for young adults, but hei, a good read is a good read, don't you think so?
The story opened immediately when an evil presence kidnapped a family member. Whatever it was, it wasn't human. Thirty years later, the King family moved in when the patriarch accepted a job as the principle of the only secondary school in the area and found the grand but abandoned Queen Anne/Victorian house in the edge of the forest.
From the moment they checked the house, the oldest son, Xander (from Alexander; the King family had been naming their children after old Kings and Queens for generations, hence the children's name: Alexander, David, and Victoria) noticed something was not quite right with the house. But the lure of having his own room, and even the possibilities that the house might offer some kind of adventure, however sinister it might be, made him and the younger, thriller seeker brother David, wanted to live in it. And what adventures they are: fighting gladiator in ancient Rome and a close call of being leopards' lunch in the middle of tropical jungle.
Until the entity took their mother away.
While it is certainly not a Harry Potter book, it's still a very fun book to read and I'm glad I stumbled on this one.
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