The Dragon House

It is not hard to imagine that you are a thirteen-year-old (almost fourteen) and you dont quite feel like you belong in your own family with a somewhat goofy father who does magic tricks and disappears for long periods of time and might be a secret agent not to mention a mother who might be a white witch and a sister is actually normal but doesnt look the slightest bit like you. Then it gets worse when your family suddenly moves into a massive pile of a house deep in the woods in the middle of nowhere and that house seems to be alive. It is more than a house. It is also a centuries-old sleeping dragon that settled into the shape of a house as it slept. But now it is waking up and you find you have a strange affinity to it.You and no one else can slide through the walls swim in the bloodstream of the Dragon and share its consciousness. You acquire a mysterious teacher and a robotic companion from the planet Zarconax and if life isnt getting strange enough already something goes wrong and Ghastly Horrors and other malevolent monstrosities attack well before you or your parents or even the house itself is prepared to do anything about it. Imagine that an all-encompassing darkness threatens everyone you ever cared about.Darrell Schweitzers fourth novel might be considered a book for younger readers or for readers who remember what it was like to be young. It is perhaps most comparable to the spooky narratives of John Bellairs. It is the sort of story filled with striking imagery and bizarre incidents a mixture of whimsy and genuine fright.