Book Review
Title: Trapped in Room 217
Author: Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Genre: Paranormal/Family
Rating: *****
Review: The opening to Trapped in Room 217 was great, we meet Jayla and her brother, Dion, who move to Estes Park, Colorado for their father’s job in landscaping. However, it means pulling the kids out a little early for school, but they shouldn’t be there more than a week. I liked how this is a broken family dynamic as the mother left them a long time ago, so it is just Jayla, Dion, and their dad.
Once they arrive in Estes Park they learn they are going to be staying in the Stanley Hotel which seems more like a mansion and instantly gives Jayla the creeps. However, she tries to settle in for her father’s sake and work is work but strange things start happening and she seems to be the only one who is noticing them. One night both siblings see the ghost of a maid from long ago and while both are scared they seem to sense that she doesn’t want to harm them. But as they are kids, their curiosity gets the better of them and they begin investigating the history of the hotel.
As we approach the halfway mark in the novel, Jayla and Dion head down into the tunnels under the hotel to investigate when their hear voices and the batteries in their phones mysteriously die. However, Reuben the caretaker finds them before they can become too scared and takes them back into the hotel. They tell him about their room being haunted and he lets slip that the ghost of the maid is called Elizabeth and that the hotel draws in both the living and the dead.
As we cross into the second half of the novel, the siblings find some help from hotel staff and learn that there are more and more ghosts residing in the hotel including Lucy a runaway who uses to live in the hotel until she was found and thrown out causing her to freeze to death and that she hasn’t left since. Jayla realizes that Elizabeth is looking for something which is why she keeps returning to their room. The pair finds the item they think Elizabeth is looking for and now all they can do is wait for her to return.
In the end, everything works out fine for the family. While the book does have a few scary moments they are quite on the tame side and would make ok reading for younger kids but not too young. I found I really enjoyed Trapped in Room 217 and I will be reading more from this author soon.
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I received this review copy from NetGalley
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