Lock the Doors

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Despite the author's efforts to put doubts in reader's minds about whether Tom's own trauma was leading him to see monsters where none existed, I almost never expected anything other than the revelation of a giant secret on the part of Amy and/or her family. It was more of a question of what was being hidden, and each detail that was revealed ruined my past theories. I finally ended up with a reasonably decent idea that almost fit all of the clues - it turns out that I was partly right, but things were more messed up than even I guessed. i did like how fast paced this was though. after reading vicious + vengeful, i really wanted an easy read and that’s exactly what this gave me. short chapters, simple writing, u get the idea.

His deep and distinctive voice gave us hits such as ‘Deeper Than The Holler’ and ‘Three Wooden Crosses.’ But a devastating stroke in 2013 nearly took his life. He had to relearn everything including eating, talking and walking. It is that we as readers get to hear that Tom is really 16, but otherwise I wouldn’t have believed it. If you compare it to other peeps around him who are the same age, or even 1 or 2 years old he just stands out. I felt like he, and also his friend, were more like 13-14. The way he talked/did things. Plus, again, while I understood his obsession with Amy and her secret, it just went too far. Too the point that I just couldn’t believe this was a 16 year old. I have been obsessed with things, I confess, but that was when I was younger.

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Overall I just can't recommend this one. It was a chore to get through and not worth it for the payoff in the end.

Nia, Tom’s mom, and Jay were such fun characters. I was also so happy for Tom’s mom to finally find a man who doesn’t beat her, hurt her, do other horrible things. Plus, I loved seeing Nia and Tom getting closer as the story continued. Deadlatches (Nightlatches) are found on wooden/timber doors and also glass panelled doors. Door Type Commonly Fitted To The book itself could have been much shorter. At times it just felt so dragged out and at times I wondered if it would ever get to the point of finding out what was going on. I think if we shorten the Amy chapters, remove a few bits and boops here, I think it would have been a much stronger book. Much more exciting. Much more WOW what is happening.

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Mr Hobaugh begins a series of radio calls to Columbia. There is no response. Mr Cain asks hopefully when a radar signal was expected. "One minute ago, flight," comes the response from Richard Jones, flight dynamics officer. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-03-16 06:28:04 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40879711 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier This was such an intense read, with chilling discoveries consistently made. These ensured the reader remained both engaged in the proceedings and unable to decipher the next alteration in the twisted path to the just as twisted conclusion. Even when, about half-way through the novel, the major mystery seemed to have been solved, more followed that further proved the unguessable nature of what evolved here. This was certainly a very gripping read in which the author manages to keep up the suspense really well and keeps us readers glued to the edge of our seats. Honestly, at the start the story was feeling to me a little like the Goosebumps film where the new neighbour meets RL Stine’s ‘daughter’ and is suspicious of what she is going through, but in the book as our story moves on Tom uncovers more and more clues or rather suspicious circumstances and we soon become convinced that there is indeed something the matter, but have no idea what this could possibly be. And then we start getting some clues….

The first bad news comes when Jeff Kling, the maintenance, mechanical arm and crew systems officer, reports a sudden loss of data from spacecraft sensors."I just lost four separate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle," he says. I wouldn't say the anxiety and OCD rep was necessarily bad, but to me it read more like a device designed to put doubt in reader's minds rather than good and nuanced mental illness representation.I enjoyed Ralph's previous book, 14 Ways to Die, but this one was just so tedious and repetitive. The core story was actually decent, but it just took forever to get there. The writing seemed choppy and very juvenile. I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This review is spoiler-free. When a boy enters his new house he notices holes on the doors… what is going on? A pretty good book, but it felt just a tad too long for me.

I see this is an old thread but while watching a repeat of the movie The Martian, we again wondered about this phrase so, finally, I Googled it. Thomas has faced so much domestic abuse after his father left him and his mother. All the boyfriend of her mother turned out a monster until she met Jay. Her mother has found her dream house where they’ve moved with Jay and Nia, there new blended family. Everything seems to get better until Tom found holes in bedrooms door. the writing also didn’t do it for me. it felt very juvenile, even for a ya book, and so choppy. there’s also so much repetition that just isn’t needed. it got old.

As he continues to push towards recovery, we can delight in this classic performance of a beloved song with another country music star. Alongside the suspense the author has also created some pretty creepy situations and frightening characters who aren’t your typical ‘villains’ but at the same time turn out to be far more frightening and dangerous. There are also the contrasts that keep standing out between Tom’s unhappy past, his present when things seem to be normalising even though this has its obstacles as well, and then again the mystery that the house is throwing up, unsettling things for him again.