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Gilda Joyce: The Bones Of The Holy (2011)

by Jennifer Allison(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0525422129 (ISBN13: 9780525422129)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Dutton Juvenile

series

Gilda Joyce

review 1: Fantastic & frightening finale to the series (currently)! Once more author Allison walks the fine line between fun adventure and hair-raising ghostly encounters, setting this outing in the super-haunted St. Augustine, FL. She deftly challenges her teenage heroine with big life changes amid lantern tours, archeological digs, and family secrets. Gilda (thankfully) still hasn't learned not to snoop for the truth and there's many laugh then scream aloud moments. Give the audiobook series a try - I found that I didn't want to "read" the books because narrator Jessica Alamay is such a pleasure to listen to, switching accents / ages / sexes with ease. I hope for more GJ psychic investigations!
review 2: Having missed reading books #2, 3, and 4, this series has come a ... morelong way since book #1! I liked it so much that I could almost give it 5 stars. It's more simple story than the books that I usually give a 5 to made me give it 4 stars, but I'm promptly ordering the missing books from amazon. The story is partially advanced by Gilda typing letters on her dad's old typewriter to her deceased father, her teacher back at home, her friend Wendy Choy, and memos to herself. This is actually very effective since Gilda has a very amusing and wry sense of humor. In this story Gilda's mom announces her engagement to a man she met while on a trip to Florida. The wedding is imminent so Gilda and her mom travel from their home in Michigan to St. Augustine. Gilda tries to like Eugene Pook but it's obvious that she doesn't trust him and he doesn't like her either. He's an antique dealer and his house is an old St. Augustine mansion full of antiques. His store is named Charlotte's Attic after the woman who jilted him and ran off with another man 20 years earlier. Gilda finds that odd. Her psychic investigations continue there where she is actually able to see the ghost of a woman who seems to be trying to tell her something. This book contains danger, which was absent in the first book I read of the series. It's a mid-grade book but I think all readers of mystery who also like paranormal stuff will like this book. I know that I did! less

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