I had the pleasure of having lunch with Jack Gantos, the award-winning author of both children's and young adult books, but it was a little awkward since I hadn't read any of his books. Since then, I've read two of them: Hole in My Life, which was a Printz honor book, and Love Curse of the Rumbaughs, which is his most recent YA book. If you're into creepy, quirky, gothic tales, well, I may have found the book for you. A slight novel, The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs features a young woman named Ivy, who really, really loves her mother. She's not the only person like this that she knows. Nope, there are twins, about the age of her mother, who live across the street, Adolph and Abner Rumbaugh. They loved their mother so much that they... well... let's just say even though she has passed, she still lives in the house with them. And no, she's not a ghost. When Ivy turns sixteen, she learns that she is actually more connected to the twin Rumbaughs than she thought, and that there's actually a Rumbaugh family curse of over-loving one's mother. Creepy, strange, and bizarre...this is one book that will unsettle you just a bit.
Recommended to: anyone who enjoys a little Edgar Allan Poe now and again, fans of gothic literature
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