{"id":1349,"date":"2018-01-18T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2018-01-13T19:15:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T00:15:18","slug":"book-review-the-dare-by-brett-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Dare by Brett Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/thedare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 Walking to school the day before Halloween, Davey and Dennis spot a cat hanging in front of the old, abandoned Bentley place.\u00a0 Dennis tells Davey the story of how the Victorian house is said to be haunted after old man Bentley killed his family several years ago and that their ghosts still live within.\u00a0 Davey is hesitant to believe his friend\u2019s story, but later that day when they return to see if the cat is still hanging where they last saw it, Dennis still insists that it is true.\u00a0 About that time, Davey\u2019s crush from school, Lacy, shows up and asks what they are up to.\u00a0 Dennis accuses Davey of being chicken and not wanting to go check out the house with him.\u00a0 Being teenage boys, this starts a back and forth argument and ends up in a DARE!\u00a0 Not wanting to look bad in front of Lacy, Davey agrees to the dare, but not in daylight where they could get caught going into the house.\u00a0 They all agree that the next night, on Halloween, when they are out trick-or-treating, that Davey and Dennis will go into the old Bentley place, but what will they find inside?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brett Williams\u2019 The Dare is a very fun Halloween read!\u00a0 The first part of the book is basically setting up the scene of who is who and getting the \u201cdare\u201d initiated.\u00a0 It also sets the stage for the \u201chaunted house\u201d that Davey and Dennis are to investigate.\u00a0 The second part of the book is where the kids are going around trick or treating, which is a lot of fun as you get to witness the antics of kids of all ages and also foreshadows to dangers ahead as Lacy and her friend run into a couple of creepy characters that are in search of the Bentley place.\u00a0 And the last part of the book takes place when they finally reach the Bentley place and Davey and Dennis venture inside.\u00a0 Williams does an excellent job with the flow of the story and building up to the final scenes of the book.\u00a0 This book seems to be aimed towards a young adult audience, but I think that fans of horror at any age would enjoy this great novel.\u00a0 Highly Recommended!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contains:\u00a0 Violence<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review by Rhonda 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