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Texas Gothic Rosemary ClementMoore Books

First off let me say that my interest in this book was spiked because I attended an event with Rosemary Clement-Moore and hearing her talk about her book Texas Gothic I knew this was a book I would have to go to the library or book store and get. This book takes place on a ranch on in south Texas and I love books that place in Texas being a Texas girl myself. Then this book has everything I need in a good book: romance with cute cowboys, mystery, spooky ghosts, and not to mention calamities in every other chapter.

I am glad I bought this book because I was not disappointed and finished reading it in a matter of days. Texas Gothic is a quick fast paced and just plain fun kind of read. The book is about Amy Goodnight who somehow gets talked in to ranch sitting for her Aunt with her scatterbrained sister. Amy is the responsible one in a family full of witches. She believes in magic but is too sensible to use it herself. When she hears rumors of a ghost at the neighboring ranch and then skeletons turn up. Amy finds herself neck deep in the mystery of the "Mad Monk." With the the help of her sister, a motley crew of students from the university and the cute but cranky boy who runs the neighboring ranch, Amy starts piecing together the clues.

I know the plot sounds cheesy like a cross between Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. It doesn't help when Amy finds herself in one scrape after another some hilarious and some not so hilarious. But, trust me this book is really good. I liked how Ms. Clement-Moore added Nancy Drew jokes into the book because even the characters could see the cheesiness of the mystery. I liked how the mystery was tied up at the end and no there weren't any lines "I would have got away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids." While there was a real ghost haunting Amy there were also real humans committing crimes. I never suspected the real criminals. I love a good mystery that can keep me guessing and is also spooky at the same time.

I also liked how Amy grew in this book and was able to accept the magical part of herself and come to terms with that side of her family. Texas Gothic is not only a book about discoveries of a criminal kind but also of a personal kind as Amy and her cute cowboy Ben both had to accept that is not their responsibility to take care of their whole families and just be teenagers for a while. I give Texas Gothic four laser pistols because it was out of this world. I will most definitely be checking out the next book in the Goodnight Family series called Spirit and Dust that comes in May. It will feature Amy's cousin Daisy who is a physic.


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Texas Gothic Rosemary ClementMoore Books Reviews

"A lifetime of living with witches and psychics had made spells a routine part of my life. I knew they worked, but I still preferred to put my trust in a locked door. My relationship with magic was like a president's kid's relationship with politics I didn't participate, but I couldn't quite escape it. Especially not here, in the White House of the sovereign nation of Goodnight."

There was a time when Amy Goodnight embraced magic as wholeheartedly as the rest of her family. Then she turned eleven and grew up. Now she makes it her mission to keep the normal folks from finding out just how eccentric the Goodnight clan really is, which is eccentric as in 'crazier than a sack of weasels.' It's not the witchcraft and the heebie-jeebies, or any of the other magical goings-on, that makes her family crazy in Amy's eyes, of course. She knows all that stuff is real. No, it's the fact that not one other Goodnight goes anywhere without their freak flag flying high and proud. They absolutely, positively will not pretend to be normal, not for one second of one day. So Amy provides a barrier between her family and all the people in the world who don't believe in kitchen witches. She is part gate-keeper and part spin doctor, And she doesn't practice magic, AT ALL.

Watching over the flora and fauna of Aunt Hyacinth's herb farm with her genius sister Phin seemed to Amy like an easy way to spend her last summer before college. Goodnight Farm might be in a way-rural part of Texas, but Aunt Hyacinth is sensible enough to have all of the trappings of civilization, including air conditioner and satellite television. It should all be very normal, a month of hard work in the sun and long evenings lazing about in the AC watching TV. It should even be boring, but it's Goodnight Farm so, of course, it's not. First of all, there's the extra annoying, very hot young cowboy from the ranch next door. From the minute she meets him, Amy can't decide if she wants to kiss Ben McCulloch or kill him. Maybe both. Then Amy gets an unwanted visitor, more specifically a spectral visitor, who can waltz (or float, or materialize - whatever it is that ghosts do) right inside the farm house. Inside all of the combined magical protections the Goodnight clan can produce, Amy is horrified to note, without so much as a how-do-you-do. This ghost is strong, slightly menacing and very determined - and he obviously wants something from Amy. Suddenly it seems like the walls Amy has carefully constructed between her family and 'the real world' are about to crumble, crushing her relatively normal life in the rubble. And when those walls topple, all Amy's freak is going to fly.

I love Rosemary Clement-Moore's novels, I really do. From the whip-smart, sassy books of the Maggie Quinn trilogy (Prom Dates From Hell, Hell Week and Highway To Hell) to the intoxicatingly atmospheric Splendor Falls, I have totally lost myself in each of her stories - and I've happily read these books more than once or twice. So it shouldn't be a surprise to learn that I've been waiting for Texas Gothic since I first heard about it - a year ago. Let me tell you, the wait, as agonizing as it was, was worth it. Fun, fabulous, funky - Texas Gothic is so good I raced through it, closed it with a sigh, sat and thought about it for a minute, then picked it back up and read it again.

Amy Goodnight is the kind of heroine anyone can root for. She's smart, snarky but kind and fully capable of taking care of herself, but she's also not afraid to ask for help when she needs it. Strong, likable characters are one of Ms. Clement-Moore's many strengths as an author and Texas Gothic is nicely filled with quirky and eccentric people who also manage to be completely true to life. Amy's sister Phin is a hoot, the minor characters are interesting and have a role to play and the romantic interest, Ben McCulloch, is entirely three-dimensional. He's handsome and athletic, yes, but he's also uptight and occasionally pissy. The narrative plot of Texas Gothic - part mystery, part paranormal, all wonderful - makes this delightful novel extremely difficult to put down. Really, it was fabulous from beginning to end. I hope Ms. Clement-Moore is planning on writing more novels about Amy Goodnight and her freaky, funny, fantastic family.
First off let me say that my interest in this book was spiked because I attended an event with Rosemary Clement-Moore and hearing her talk about her book Texas Gothic I knew this was a book I would have to go to the library or book store and get. This book takes place on a ranch on in south Texas and I love books that place in Texas being a Texas girl myself. Then this book has everything I need in a good book romance with cute cowboys, mystery, spooky ghosts, and not to mention calamities in every other chapter.

I am glad I bought this book because I was not disappointed and finished reading it in a matter of days. Texas Gothic is a quick fast paced and just plain fun kind of read. The book is about Amy Goodnight who somehow gets talked in to ranch sitting for her Aunt with her scatterbrained sister. Amy is the responsible one in a family full of witches. She believes in magic but is too sensible to use it herself. When she hears rumors of a ghost at the neighboring ranch and then skeletons turn up. Amy finds herself neck deep in the mystery of the "Mad Monk." With the the help of her sister, a motley crew of students from the university and the cute but cranky boy who runs the neighboring ranch, Amy starts piecing together the clues.

I know the plot sounds cheesy like a cross between Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. It doesn't help when Amy finds herself in one scrape after another some hilarious and some not so hilarious. But, trust me this book is really good. I liked how Ms. Clement-Moore added Nancy Drew jokes into the book because even the characters could see the cheesiness of the mystery. I liked how the mystery was tied up at the end and no there weren't any lines "I would have got away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids." While there was a real ghost haunting Amy there were also real humans committing crimes. I never suspected the real criminals. I love a good mystery that can keep me guessing and is also spooky at the same time.

I also liked how Amy grew in this book and was able to accept the magical part of herself and come to terms with that side of her family. Texas Gothic is not only a book about discoveries of a criminal kind but also of a personal kind as Amy and her cute cowboy Ben both had to accept that is not their responsibility to take care of their whole families and just be teenagers for a while. I give Texas Gothic four laser pistols because it was out of this world. I will most definitely be checking out the next book in the Goodnight Family series called Spirit and Dust that comes in May. It will feature Amy's cousin Daisy who is a physic.