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He's Waiting for You
Looking forward to their Memorial Day weekend camping trip in the mountains, four teenage girls are unprepared for the dangerous evil that lives in the deserted mansion where they are planning to stay.
- GenresHorror
232 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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February 26, 2020
I was expecting much more from this, after enjoying the other books by Jesse Osburn I've read (Prom Night and The Last Lullaby), but despite some intriguing moments and some surprisingly harsh gore/violence for YA, this ultimately fell flat.
For their annual Labor Day trip, Mallory, Shane and Elizabeth are joined by new friend Kendall, who has made the plans this time. She's taking them to the House Of Abetello. Mallory, Shane and Elizabeth think it's just like any other trip. But Kendall has ulterior motives for taking them there.
And those motives? The book doesn't bother to explain. Instead, a lot of the plot is focused on the rivalry between Shane and Elizabeth over David, Elizabeth's boyfriend. Shane has been David's tutor recently and has decided that she's in love with him. It got boring witnessing Shane being constantly stroppy over David. (David and his friend Craig show up and join the girls on their trip.) As for Elizabeth, she pretends she's rich, when she's actually dirt poor. And Mallory suffers from hysterical blindness ever since her father drowned in a boating accident, which she witnessed.
None of the characters are all that likable. Mallory is too insipid as a protagonist due to her hysterical blindness and constant blacking out. Shane is a stroppy bore (and the house seems to be possessing her.) Elizabeth is shallow. Kendall has dragged them all there, knowing they're likely to get killed, but never explains why she ever needs them there.
The House Of Abetello has a grisly history which clearly likes to claim victims over the years, but the book basically ends by steadfastly refusing to explain itself. I knew little more at the end of the book than I did at the beginning! That kind of wastes my time! Despite its few interesting moments (), this was mostly dull, with the action cut up by endless descriptions of travelling through the house and its various rooms.
Title is misleading. There's no "he" waiting for anybody. Because the book never bothers to explain anything!
For their annual Labor Day trip, Mallory, Shane and Elizabeth are joined by new friend Kendall, who has made the plans this time. She's taking them to the House Of Abetello. Mallory, Shane and Elizabeth think it's just like any other trip. But Kendall has ulterior motives for taking them there.
And those motives? The book doesn't bother to explain. Instead, a lot of the plot is focused on the rivalry between Shane and Elizabeth over David, Elizabeth's boyfriend. Shane has been David's tutor recently and has decided that she's in love with him. It got boring witnessing Shane being constantly stroppy over David. (David and his friend Craig show up and join the girls on their trip.) As for Elizabeth, she pretends she's rich, when she's actually dirt poor. And Mallory suffers from hysterical blindness ever since her father drowned in a boating accident, which she witnessed.
None of the characters are all that likable. Mallory is too insipid as a protagonist due to her hysterical blindness and constant blacking out. Shane is a stroppy bore (and the house seems to be possessing her.) Elizabeth is shallow. Kendall has dragged them all there, knowing they're likely to get killed, but never explains why she ever needs them there.
The House Of Abetello has a grisly history which clearly likes to claim victims over the years, but the book basically ends by steadfastly refusing to explain itself. I knew little more at the end of the book than I did at the beginning! That kind of wastes my time! Despite its few interesting moments (), this was mostly dull, with the action cut up by endless descriptions of travelling through the house and its various rooms.
Title is misleading. There's no "he" waiting for anybody. Because the book never bothers to explain anything!
January 5, 2017
I read this book when I was 12 or 13, and I found it absolutely terrifying. It might not stand the test of time, but I loved the atmosphere and the creepy twist towards the end.
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