Review: Scary School by Derek The Ghost and Scott M. Fischer

E-Book: Scary School by Derek The Ghost and Scott M. Fischer

Pages: 256

Genre: Middle Grade, Paranormal

Source: Sent from author

Short Synopsis: Derek, now a ghost due to an unfortunate accident at school, returns back to scary school with unfinished business and observes what the crazy school is like for its students who have teachers that are monsters.

My Thoughts: A cute read with interesting characters, but there were a couple of things that kind of bothered me.

Derek used to be a student at Scary School, a school whose teachers were actual monsters. After an unfortunate accident involving a chemistry lab, Derek now comes back to haunt the school as Derek The Ghost.

With a quest to write a book about the school, Derek follows the lives, trials, and experiences of the students and the teachers at this unique school. The principal of the school claims that students learn at a better rate when they are most scared, thus having teachers who are monsters.

With an 850 year old vampire, a dragon who has an appetite for students, a T-rex, and a half-zombie, half-human, Scary School is anything but ordinary. This year is also a special treat for the school and its students. The scary school has been invited to be a participant of the Ghoul Games, which is usually intended only for monsters. All human students must participate. The students can choose any game they wish to compete in, but there is a catch. If a human student looses, the student from the other school has a choice to eat the human. Can the students survive a merging of a school filled with monsters, and the Ghoul Games?

An interesting read with colorful characters. Definitely not your average read. But there were a couple of things that I found to be a little bit too much to get through. Though it's supposed to be a children's novel, I felt it was a bit too heavily centered on death and eating students and a bit too morbid. I also felt that there was a lot of repetition with certain phrases, i.e. 'more about this information later' and 'Frank pronounced as Rachel.' I also felt that some of the stories didn't really make sense like when Ms. Fang drained three students because they made fun of her and how the nurse was able to bring back the students but ultimately still left one dead? I was also concerned with how many students were eaten by the teachers and the parents didn't seem so concerned? Overall, it was still an entertaining read, with fun characters.

Would I recommend this book: Maybe

Rating: I give this book a 3/5.