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This is where it all started.
This is what started it all, my infatuation with Ms. Jensen's books. I bought this 384 paged book at a used book store, not expecting much from it. I automatically assumed that it was another piece of "fluffy" summer reading. What I got instead ws a fantastic horror novel, filled with really creapy images! This was one of those rare books that actually had me too freaked-out to turn to the next page!
The story centers around two sisters, Jodi and Amy, whos mother sends them to live with her ex-husband for the summer. The two sisters arrive at the airport with mixed feelings about meeting their dad whom they've never seen before. Little did they know that they would be spending their summer with a traveling carnival! Yes, their father decided to join a carnival.
At first, the carnival seemed friendly. A place filled with interesting charactors and fun rides. Especially the House of Mirrors, the sideshow attraction that holds more than what you see on the surface.

Then the first body is found, crumpled into an unrecognizable mass of blood and bones. Then the truth behind the House of Mirrors is untangled. A truth filled with grotesque clowns and an evil magician who wants more than to hear children scream in his House of Illusions where nothing is as it seems...
This book was almost impossible to put down! It had me staying up late into the night, too scared to turn the page and too glued to stop. What I like most about this book is that it doesn't have a huge "Stephen King ending" where everything is put into a final statement. This book makes you think. This was refreshing. The only problem I had with the book was some of the diologue. Some of it was very unrealistic and melodramatic. I couldn't picture real human beings using the same phrases that some of the charactors used. But oh-well, this can be forgiven. The rest of the book was great!
On the surface, this book might seem a little cheesy, but if you keep reading, you'll find that it's a fast pace horror novel filled with killer clowns, gruesome murders and some very creepy moments!

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Excellent!!
This book was one of the best horror books I've ever read. I couldn't stop reading it and I am reading it for the second time!!

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House of Illusions
Traveling carnival, kids of worker show up unexpectantly,
mysterious clowns, curiosity, secrets, and
THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONS (let us not forget that!).
Strange, very strange happenings in this house of mirrors
with it's disappearing staircase.
Can the kids solve the mystery? Or are they just in danger
of their lives? They are very afraid and SO WAS I!
I owned and loaned two books with this title,
although they are usually very hard to find.
I want to read it for the 4th time,
but each copy I loaned out, I never got back.
It must have been passed on and on.