Author: Romily Bernard
Age: Middle Grade
Genres: Mystery
Publication Date: December 10, 2019
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Source: ARC
Purchase: Hardcover | Kindle | B&N | iBooks | Kobo | TBD
Synopsis:
Welcome to Bohring-home to 453 people, 2,053 alligators, and one monster curse.
Correction: home to 454 people, now that Kick Winter is living in the swamp Hollows with her Grandma Missouri, the town (fake) psychic. Bohring is anything but boring for Kick who has already blown a hole through the kitchen floor, befriended a chicken-eating gator, and discovered that the town's hundred-year curse is upon them.
It's the Bohring curse and all the kids are about to become monsters-or so the legend goes. People are worried-except for Kick. She knows there's a scientific explanation for everything, especially curses and monsters. But Kick is the new kid in school and she's determined to make a name for herself . . . by pretending to be psychic.
According to her calculations: one teeny-tiny life + (fake) psychic skills = popularity. But when kids start disappearing and glowing creatures start showing up, Kick's theory quickly evaporates in a puff of foul-smelling swamp gas. Can Kick use her (real) science smarts to prove the curse is a hoax? Or is it just-maybe-sort of-somehow possible the curse is here?
Author Romily Bernard weaves a fast-paced middle-grade mystery filled with humor and scientific intrigue, set in a perfectly eerie Southern town.
My Rating:
My Thoughts:
This was a fun little mystery/suspense read. I loved the scientific aspect to this story. I felt like I was back in a chemistry class -- it was awesome. The writing was good, the characters were all unique, the pacing was great.
Kick is the new girl in Bohring. She lives in the swamps with her grandmother, the infamous psychic and she's trying to fit in. Kick was such an awesome character for me. She was determined to prove that everything had a scientific explanation. She was intelligent, hardworking, never gave up, sweet and downright funny. I found myself loving her more than the story itself.
Grandma Missouri was funny. She was sweet, she played psychic and was down to earth. She was great at reading people and giving them answers. She supported Kick and loved her town. Carolina, Kick's cousin, was annoying at first, but as the story progressed I began to love her. She was such a useful character to Kick's growth.
Finding out the secret behind the curse was INSANE. I would not have expected that at all. Finding out who the culprit was killed me in a great way. Especially since there was more than one, but only one got caught.
Definitely enjoyed it and would totally recommend it!
About the Author
Romily Bernard graduated from Georgia State University with
a literature degree. Since then, she's worked as a riding instructor, cell-phone
salesperson, personal assistant, horse groomer and exercise rider, accounting
assistant, and, during a very dark time, customer service representative. . . .
She's also, of course, now a YA novelist.
So don't let anyone tell you a BA degree will keep you
unemployed.
Romily currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Find Me is
her debut novel. It placed first in the 2011 YA Unpublished Maggie Awards
(given by Georgia Romance Writers) and won the Golden Heart Award for YA
Romance from the Romance Writers of America in 2012.
Giveaway
3 winners will receive a hardcover of THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS, US only.
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