Weird things started happening right from the start, and they built throughout the story. The author does a great job of doling out clues and questions from the beginning to keep the reader turning pages. It’s full of interesting and mysterious treasures and rooms that draw Elizabeth and her friend Freddy into the history of the hotel and the Falls family. Her affinity for puzzles and love of reading really clicked for me. Like The Westing Game or The Mysterious Benedict Society mashed up with Harry Potter. Soon Elizabeth is using her gift for puzzles, codes and crosswords to sort out the mysterious events at Winterhouse. And the conflicting stories and feelings about what happened to her parents.Īt Winterhouse, the mysteries continue with the unhappy couple with a coffin of “books, ” and a curious library where people skulk around at midnight with flashlights. The whispered conversation between her aunt and uncle about a mysterious benefactor. The weird feeling she gets before something unexpected happens. There are mysteries all around Elizabeth before she even boards the train. But everything is taken care of, and Elizabeth is welcomed into Winterhouse. Elizabeth has no idea how her aunt and uncle can afford to send her on the train or pay for a three-week stay at Winterhouse, much less afford a vacation. Elizabeth is being sent to Winterhouse, a beautiful old hotel. This Christmas, penny-pinching Aunt Purdy and Uncle Burlap are going on an unprecedented vacation.
She lives with a Dursley-ish aunt and uncle. Mystery, adventure, and beautiful writing combine in this exciting debut audiobook richly set in a hotel full of secrets.Elizabeth Somers is an orphan. But will it be at the cost of losing the people she has come to care for, and even Winterhouse itself? As fate would have it, Elizabeth is the only person who can break the hotel's curse and solve the mystery. But the deeper she delves into the hotel's secrets, the more Elizabeth starts to realize that she is somehow connected to Winterhouse. It's not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms-most notably its massive library. Orphan Elizabeth Somers's malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Winterhouse by Ben Guterson is an enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut-the first audiobook in a trilogy-set in a magical hotel full of secrets.
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