Description
"A breathless escapade."--"Kirkus Reviews " "Jinks (the Evil Genius series) combines a plot filled with surreal twists and turns with a dash of Greek mythology in a novel that hits the mark on both the humor and horror fronts."--"Publishers Weekly " "Jinks deftly mixes mild horror with humor to give younger readers a few shivers and make older readers chuckle. Each dream/nightmare world sheds dramatic, sometimes touching, insight into the character whose hopes and fears create it, and the nonstop action will make for exciting read-alouds and book talks. Completely absorbing and totally fun."--"School Library Journal " A boy . . . a witch . . . and a "totally"sinister paradise: that's what Marcus gets when his mom rents a scuzzy trailer and parks it near a dirty, noisy beach. Some vacation Marcus would rather play video games anyway, but when he discovers a staircase underneath the trailer, it looks as if he may be in for some kind of multilevel, multiplayer experience controlled by a complete nightmare of a witch. It's just like a game--except it's all too real. The author of "Evil Genius" spins a brilliantly compelling yarn of a journey into a dark and twisted land--because once you enter the Paradise Trap, there's no guarantee that you'll ever leave
