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“…Abandoned by her negligent parents…” Is this an American thing? She was 16. Her parents were out of town. I LIVED alone at 16.

WTF? Pike’s The Eternal Enemy is NOT meat-and-potatoes horror or even basic sci-fi. I am 100% convinced this author has not, in fact, read all the books she writes about.

I’m not sure it’s correct that Point Horror was launched in 1991. Are you sure? I guess it might have been launched earlier in the U.K., but Diane Hoh’s Funhouse is from 1990; Carol Ellis’ My Secret Admirer is (I believe) from 1989; and R.L. Stine’s The Baby-Sitter (which, IIRC, launched the U.K. Point Horror line, is from 1988 or 1989. Richie Tankersley Cusick’s Trick or Treat, too.

Starting to struggle getting through this one. Not exactly sure why.

Hey, Marissa and Violet were excellent counsellors! Their kids adored them, and as importantly, they tailored their activities to the individual kids’ likes - hikes and craft stuff for Marissa’s, makeup and hair for Vi’s. I am starting to suspect the author has not read a lot of these books. (I read this one last summer, not for the first time.)

I’m pretty sure Mary Anne and Too Many Boys was book #34, not #42. I really do have a weird memory. #42 was Jessi and the Dance School Phantom, which I liked because it was a) Jessi and b) longer than most of them (but sadly did not involve any ghosts).

The only books Ms Moss actually praises are “gritty” ones. I honestly don’t know why she didn’t just write about those.