YA
Clickety Click
Mystery
Its eyes widened as it grew closer and closer to her face. Alice was paralyzed with fear, clutching her bed covers with white knuckled fingers. The creature’s mauve skin glistened with slime and drops fell onto its spindly pointed claws. Alice opened and closed her mouth willing her voice to sound in the dark bedroom. The claws clicked together as the monster’s jaw opened. Click. Click. Clickety-click.
What future awaits Alice? Are her guardians who they seem? Will the monster reveal itself? These questions and more are answered as Alice realizes a secret kept for generations.
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As a big fan of YA books as well as being a Trekkie, I thoroughly enjoyed this imaginative well-written short YA novel by Mandy Barnett. It takes the reader on an adventurous journey from an ordinary small town setting, to flight, and into a cavernous mountain. It is reminiscent of a very good episode of either Star Trek or The Twilight Zone (two of my favourites). I won’t say much more, or I will have to mark this review as containing spoilers. It is available in both print (if, unlike me, you are patient enough to wait for it to arrive in the mail) and as an e-book through Smashwords. The cost is very reasonable and this is a book your children/teenagers will enjoy reading. Since it is free of bad language and inappropriate situations, this is one I will allow my own teenagers to read and enjoy. Kudos to the author for putting out such a great addition to YA literature!
