A Drop of Night - Stefan Bachmann

This book showed up on my holds list last week when I picked them up.  I have no recollection of putting it on hold or why, which is kind of weird.  It's not really something I would have necessarily picked up on my own so I can't really say why it was there, but I read it anyway.

This was a strange little YA book that was equal parts unbelievable in it's plot and a bit ridiculous in it's storytelling.  That aside, I kind of liked it?  Centered around five teens who get tricked into travelling to a secret underground Revolution-era chateau in France for nefarious reasons, this book has everything:  Creepy science experiments, deadly booby traps, zombies, artificially grown human-esque creatures and a heroine with a sad backstory.

Almost all of this is completely ridiculous - from the abusive history of the narrator to the undead footman to the murderous, unending palace.  It's super dumb.

And yet, I read it.  And I had fun.  So it is what it is I suppose, I read dumb shit sometimes.  It sure as hell isn't Shakespeare but it was fun for what it was.  Two and half crazed frankenmothers out of five.