Dread Locks: Dark Fusion # 1

by Neal Shusterman

Hardcover, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

813.5

Publication

Dutton Juvenile (2005), Hardcover, 164 pages

Description

Accustomed to a carefree existence, fifteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.

User reviews

LibraryThing member chibimajo

Medusa was not actually killed by Perseus, and now she's pretending to be a normal teen and moves into the mansion next door. Our hero is a typical rich kid, gets everything he wants and so he's quite bored with it. So he's very intrigued by the new girl next door who wears sunglasses all the time

and is very mysterious. He eventually finds out she's sucking the lives out of classmates, etc, and turning him into one of her so he has to fix it.

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LibraryThing member SunnySD

When you've always had everything you ever wanted, what's to stop you from wanting everything? Shusterman's modern-day Medusa-tale asks, and answers that question.

Parker Baer has just turned 15. He's popular, athletic, rich -- a Lexus in the driveway on his 16th birthday is a done deal: in his own

words, spoiled rotten. His new neighbor Tara is a golden girl -- the epitome of cool. Someone all the kids want to hang out with, she presents the ultimate temptation. Parker sees the oddities... why does Tara wear sunglasses, day and night... why does she live alone in the huge, garishly painted mansion with only incredibly lifelike statues for company... and why do his schoolmates suddenly crave copious quantities of milk, sand, and mud?

Shusterman's tale is creepy, but riveting. I couldn't put it down, and ended up spending the afternoon discovering not Tara's secret, but Parker's.

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LibraryThing member edspicer

This book has a twist in it that is surprising and suspenseful. The main thing I didn't like about the book was that there were too many grammatical errors and there were parts that were too hard to understand. This seemed more like a rough draft rather than a book. 4/5 JT (10th grade) I chose this

book because I really like Greek Mythology. AG

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LibraryThing member MontzaleeW

Dread Locks (Dark Fusion #1) by Neal Shusterman is an exciting fantasy story for teens about grade 7-10 I would guess. (Although I enjoyed it too.) I bought it at a Library sale for my grand kids and thought I would read and review it first. This book combines old myths with today to make a fun

fantasy. A totally spoiled, bored, rich kid gets an interesting and hot new neighbor that sets the school a buzz with excitement and strange happenings. Very good story plot, great characters, and fun twists and surprises. Kids today aren't up on myths of old so this might just teach them a thing or two along the way, lol. Enjoyed it also because I love the old myth stories. I think my grand kids will enjoy this also. Can't wait to give them their book.

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