Review: Review of October Girls
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2012
Crystal Aldridge isn't sure what she wants in life, but it's not staying in Parson's Ford, living in a rundown trailer park, and working at a video store because she's a high school dropout.Life is trash and then you die. Or her best friend gets slammed by a delivery truck and dies, the end. Except if you're Crystal, you disobey your mother's dire warnings about the world coming to an end, cast a spell, and bring her back as a ghost. The passageway is only a small warp, an Orific, but with Halloween approaching, what evil survives in Darkmeet could flow through and do untold damage. They've found a channel, a medium: Dempsey Van Heusen and his low budget less than B films. He has implanted subliminal messages into his films and once activated his audience can summon the big and nasty into our dimension.October Girls is a Young Adult novel. The language is simple, to the point, and filled with teenage anguish. Although I didn't care how they got to a happy ending, I kept reading because I liked Crystal, Bones (her best friend and ghost) and Pettigrew (her boyfriend and a tow truck driver).