Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Reviewed by M.P.

The book Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn is very very good. It is a little bit scary but not much, it is meant to be scarier than it really is. Even so it is a great book.

The book is about a 13-year-old girl named Ali who, while rummaging in the attic, finds an old photo taken at the house where her mother grew up, by a deep and dark and dangerous lake. In the picture there are three girls. One is her mother, one her aunt Dulcie, but who is the third girl? She has been torn out of the picture. Ali is determined to find out more. She goes to the lake house for the summer with Dulcie and Ali’s 5-year old cousin Emma. At the lake, Ali hears talk of a terrible tragedy that occurred many years past, but what is it? No one will tell her, and her mother and Dulcie claim they remember nothing from childhood. Then Ali meets Sissy. Sissy is mean, spiteful, and hates Ali. Soon Emma begins having dreams about bones in the lake. None of Dulcie’s paintings work out. It seems Ali’s summer could not get any worse. Or could it?

Ali unravels lots of mysteries and finally learns the spine-chilling truth. If you are interested in what that truth is read the book. You will be surprised. I recommend this book for 3^rd or 4^th grade up, unless you don’t like scary stories. I give this book 4 ¾ stars. I definitely recommend it for anyone looking for a good story.