4.5 star!

In this phenomenal middle grade novel we follow Karma Moon and her adventurous group. Living with her dad in West Village, Karma is full of what if’s and moo goo from her favorite Chinese place. Her dad has a movie production “company” and one day they get a call from Netflix asking to shoot a docu-series for them. The series however is to find ghosts in the infamous Stanley Hotel! Full of twists and turns, Karma, her friend Mags, and her dog Alfred Hitchcock must find and capture footage of these ghosts.

I enjoyed this story so much. Karma was such an amazing character. I enjoyed how spooked she was about everything because that would be how I would react. I think this is a great middle grade for readers. It was spooky, adventurous, talked about real things young kids could be going through in their personal life. The ONLY thing I was not in love with was the pop culture references. The horror movie and Stephen king reference were find because it went with the story. But off the top of my head, towards the end there were talks about The Avengers Endgame and I feel like in 3-4 plus years that will not be something young readers can recall or maybe care about, I might be wrong, but it was something the book could be without.