Review: Enjoyable, not perfect.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2011
I really liked this Kindle read. A lot of YA authors are offering these little short stories or novellas on the kindle as a 'hold me over' until a new book is released.  This is great because its a nice bonus for fans of the series and its a bonus for the authors as well because it keeps interest going for their books.  I am very pleased with the legnth of this story.  Too often these special fill ins are unsatisfyingly short, sometimes to the point of being annoying so.  This is a short story but its pretty meaty and it has a completely self-contained story.  The plot takes up after the first book "Past Midnight" ends and right before "One Hundred Candles" opens.  Charlotte Silver and her friends become involved in helping to restore a centuries old graveyard.  A flood has come along and released dozens of caskets from their 'eternal' resting place.  Charlotte's parents become involved in identifying the remains to match them up with their previous headstones and burial spots.  I really did like the story and the chance to visit with these characters again.  I thought the story had a nice and detailed set up and was therefore even more disappointed with the hasty resolution at the end.  The author told us how things wrapped up but she didn't show us and to me that was definitely a lost opportunity.  The 'ghostly' presense in this story was not resolved to my satisfaction.  Still as a whole this story was more than worth reading.