three cheers for two star reads with amazing endings that threaten to turn it all around!!!!

this book follows Hadley, a lil girl who loves to dance. Hadley's parents are on a cruise so she's just chillin with a next-level disinterested babysitter (which, as a former babysitter, is a trope i have a problem with. let me tell you, if you weren't Mr. Rogers incarnate it was onto the next 16 year old with free time on Friday afternoons).

cue: this creeeeepy old lady comes to the door and says Hadley's parents are LOST at SEA! and that she's Hadley's great great aunt (or third cousin twice removed or half-cousin's grandmother or something equally ridiculous) and Hadley will be staying with her for the time being thank you very much.

so Hadley ends up at Grimm House (not to be confused with Graham Place, her apartment building) with two old creeps who smell like dirty laundry. (that's canon.)

it felt kind of half-baked and done (picture a not-as-good Coraline) for the vaaaast majority of the book. but then the ending was totally amazing! everything came together in a way i didn't expect at all. color me impressed.

bottom line: i feel like even the most eh middle grade is better than most YA.

thanks to goodreads giveaways for the ebook!

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