by Lois Duncan
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Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Locked in the Formula, 2010-02-19
I would have to say that there is really nothing wrong with this book, except that there's nothing really right about it.
Fans of Lois Duncan will like this book as much as any of her other books, but no more... That's all it is, your typical Lois Duncan book.
Like my favorite book of hers, Don't look Behind You, the story is told in the first person, which makes it more personal, but also slows it down. One of Duncan's strength has always been the number of characters she develops in her books. Books like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Killing Mr. Griffin were better because they had a lot of characters, so something was always happening to somebody.
Locked in Time is a sort of darker version of Tuck Everlasting showing the scary and depressing side of what it would be like to live forever. The book has some scary parts, and is fairly readable, but it never hits any new heights for Duncan, and the climax is not particularly exciting (nothing new for Duncan, since the endings of most of her books are fairly abrupt.)
The end of Locked in Time is alright, but it seems kind of forced and it doesn't really resolve any of the issues put forward in the book.
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Angieville: LOCKED IN TIME, 2010-01-29
So I've talked about my Joan Lowery Nixon phase before. I actually think I discovered Lois Duncan right before Nixon, but the two will always go hand and hand in my mind. Together they perfectly satisfied my twelve-year-old thirst for a light blending of suspense and the macabre. And no Duncan book did that better than the deliciously creepy LOCKED IN TIME. I enjoyed all of her books and they all succeeded in giving me the chills at one point or another. My old copy of I Know What You Did Last Summer is definitely showing its age and my love, as I loved revisiting those characters the most. But LOCKED IN TIME is the one that truly scared me. Not just chills, not just anxious anticipation, but the real deal, had me setting the book down long enough to calm my racing heart kind of scared.
Seventeen-year-old Nore has been away at boarding school since her mother died a year ago. Now she's on her way to Louisiana to visit her father and his new wife and her two children. When she arrives at Shadow Grove, several things are clear. Her father is happy with his new life. Her stepmother Lisette, stepbrother Gabe, and stepsister Josie are perfectly well-mannered and perfectly beautiful. And something is very, very wrong with them. Through conversations she has with elderly neighbors and residents of the town, Nore's seemingly crazy suspicions about Lisette, Gabe, and the entire Berge family start to grow. These vaguely horrific suspicions grow stronger as she overhears them discuss events from decades ago as though they were there when they happened. Nore finds herself torn between her distrust of Lisette and her growing friendship with Gabe. Determined to make her father come to his senses and see the truth, Nore rushes to solve the mystery of her new family before her time at Shadow Grove runs out.
When I think about this story now, years since I last re-read it, I am still instantly filled with the same overwhelming emotions--an appreciation for the heady beauties of the Deep South mixed with a sense of impending doom. Ms. Duncan struck the perfect chord with the impossibly lovely Berges and the simultaneous fear and longing Nore feels when in the presence of a "real" family again. The truth to the mystery unfolds smoothly and slowly, like warm molasses, creeping up behind you to tap you on the shoulder. In some ways it reminded me of a younger, simpler Mary Stewart novel, with its lovely heroine and its beautiful atmosphere. I remember thinking Nore was brave and being desperate for someone to believe her, for Gabe not to really be trying to kill her, for her father, in his grief, not to have ruined them both so thoroughly. It's the same emotional connection I seek out today when I'm in the mood for something slightly dangerous, slightly haunting, slightly bittersweet. It was these early young adult mysteries that led me to the Mary Stewarts, the Laurie Kings, the Deanna Raybourns I discovered later on. I will always love them for being the beginning.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Teen readers, 2009-04-24
Good topic for a teenager, great read for a summer vacation day. Young girls will get into this story because women are so interested in beauty and mostly, keeping it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 My favorite book , 2009-01-04
This book is by far the greatest book Mrs. Duncan has ever written. This is my favorite book of all the books i have ever read and i do read a lot. It gets very intersting right from the first chapter to the last. I recommned this book to anyone. A great book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Creepy..., 2008-11-13
If you like creepy stories, this one is for you! Lots of twists and turns. It is well written, but the reason I gave it only two stars is because I was expecting something different. Not a bad book for a horror story.
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