Twist Cottage-By Anthony Horowitz

This book is about a thirteen year old boy named Ben. He has a pretty old Dad that works at Bristol University and plays with him in the weekends. His Mother Died in a car crash when he was one. Often they needed a Nanny to look after him. But now his Dad thought it is OK without one as he thought he was old enough. One day Ben's Dad, Andrew, Came home with a younger, better looking woman. Andrew introduced her as Luise. About a week later Luise stayed the night for the first time. Ben knew there was something wrong then. Then Luise started demanding things, getting drunk and spending more and more time in bed.

One day, Andrew built up the courage to ask Luise for a divorce. She took this as a serious offence and started threatening him about what she would do if he divorced her. She was going to take all the stuff he owns. She one day came up with the idea that they had to move house. Andrew chose a house in the middle of a forest called Twist Cottage. The day before they moved in Ben went to his friend's house. His sister was a secretary for the person selling them the house. She said that 6 women had died there within a month of the purchase. But no male had ever died there. When Ben got home he asked his dad about this. His dad completely ignored him.

So they moved in. Luise was pacing in front of the fish pond. He then saw a slithering creature heading towards Luise. Imagine his surprise when he saw it was the garden hose. As it crept Luise-bound it hissed at Ben. He hid behind the glass french doors and watched as the hose pushed her in. He hesitated a bit and then ran out to pull her out of the fish pond. What a surprise, as he saved her life she started getting angry at him.

A week later Andrew went to the supermarket to get the groceries. He left Ben at home with Luise. Luise was sunbathing and listening to her iPod. Ben saw a huge beast lurking around the house. It came in the path of Luise. She was listening to her iPod so couldn't hear the lawn mower coming straight for her or Ben screaming at her. Once again Ben hide behind the glass french doors. In a twist of bloody body bits and broken bits of lawn mower he knew that Luise was dead.

Luckily his Dad just came home. When he heard she had died all he did was smile faintly and rustled Ben's hair. Ben followed his Dad into the Study and Ben saw a huge stack of books. He saw one that was lying open face down. He took a look and it said CURSES. He flipped to the open page and saw Twist Cottage written in bold writing. He read on and it said that once a witch lived in Twist Cottage. she was married to a man who then got a divorce with her. She put a curse on the Cottage so that every Female that lay foot on twist Cottage shall die. She did this because she blamed females for all the troubles in her life.


I give this book an 7.9/10.
This book was written by Anthony Horowitz.
I recommend this book for boys who don't wet their pants aged 8-12.