Excitement Begins

This chapters have had lots of suspense, it all begin when Matt had returned to Mrs.Deverill´s farm were he felt asleep and he had a nightmare. Mrs.Deverill wasn't on the farm when he awoke so Matt try to scape but he couldn't because the roads change and make Matt return to the same place where he started every time he went trough them. The next day Matt went to the forest and got lost but he run into Tom Burgess, the man that had warned him, he gave Matt a necklace and told him that he wouldn't get lost if he wear it all the time. Tom invited Matt to go to his house the next morning but when Matt went the next morning he found Tom death in his house, Matt found  "Ravens Gate" written on Toms bedroom´s wall. Matt got out of the house as soon as he could and he told the police what had happened but when the police went into Tom´s house the body and the evidence was clean up.

"The farmer was laying on the floor on the other side of the bed, partly covered by a sheet. He was obviously dead. Something-some sort of animal- had torn into his face and neck. There were hideous red gashes in the skin and his fair hair was matted with blood. His eyes were bulging, out of focus,  and his mouth was forced open in a last attempt of scream. His hands were stiff and twisted in a frantic attempt to ward something off." 

(Horowitz 89)


After reading this I got shocked and I though who could do this to Tom and why? I don't think an animal do all these things to Tom, maybe there were more than one animal or a person was with the animal. I don't know what things Tom would have done to deserve this, but I believe he had made a bad thing. If I will see something like that I woudn´t know how I will react but I will probably run as far away as I could and never come back because of the fear.



"He relax. "It´s all right," he said. "It´s only the cat. It must have followed me here."
         But the farmer´s face had gone white. All at once he had snapped the barrel of his shut gun and raised the whole thing to his shoulder. Before Matt could stop him, he pulled the trigger. There was an explosion. The cat had no chance." (Horowitz 80)


Why would he do that? I got surprise when the cat´s presence made Tom paled and kill the animal. Maybe on the pass Tom made a terrible thing to Mrs.Deverill or the cat so he would be that afraid. If I will be watching that at that moment  I will probably be really surprised and I will have loots of doubts.




I am loving this book because of the fact that it makes you not stop reading. All the suspense and the fear that the author add are pretty precise and that's why I don`t want  to stop reading. I will say that this book is a page turner because it always start and ends the chapters so intensely that you want to go on and on with the story. I´m so exited to see what will come up on the next chapters. I don't know what exact magic does Yorkshire has, but I found it strange that a necklace could suspended it. I think that when Matt go back to Mrs.Deverill´s house he would be punished and he will scape to found out more about Ravens Gate.