{"id":1265,"date":"2018-01-30T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:36:34","slug":"book-review-the-intruders-by-e-e-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Intruders by E.E. Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/intruders.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Delacorte Books for Young Readers, August, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">ISBN: 0385732643<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Available: New<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the Intruders Richardson whips up a great pure ghost story. Joel, his sister Cassie and their mother move into a house with his mother&#8217;s new fianc\u00e9 Gerald and his two sons.\u00a0 In addition to coping with the resentment of the children over the joining of their two families, they also have to deal with ghosts that are in the house.\u00a0 Joel begins having terrifying nightmares, sees a shadowy figure in the house, and feels strange sensations suggesting that he is not alone.\u00a0\u00a0 Soon all four children are drawn in, and must solve the mystery of who the ghosts are and why they are haunting the house.\u00a0 This is Richardson&#8217;s second offering, and it is stronger than his first,\u00a0<i>The Devil&#8217;s Footsteps<\/i>.\u00a0 Richardson does a great job of telling a terrifying, page-turning tale of ghosts and hauntings. The interplay between the two sets of siblings is believable and adds realism to the story.\u00a0 Teens looking for a good ghost story will find that\u00a0<i>The Intruders<\/i>\u00a0is exactly what the doctor ordered. Please note that the Those looking for a little romance with their horror, however, will need to look elsewhere.\u00a0\u00a0 Recommended.\u00a0 Contains: Supernatural scares, murder and mention of suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delacorte Books for Young Readers, August, 2006 ISBN: 0385732643 Available: New \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the Intruders Richardson whips up a great pure ghost story. Joel, his sister Cassie and their mother move into a house with his mother&#8217;s new fianc\u00e9 Gerald and his two sons.\u00a0 In addition to coping with the resentment of the children over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,171],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-paranormalsupernatural","tag-e-e-richardson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-kp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}