Amy Goodnight's family is far from normal. She comes from a line of witches, but tries her best to stay far outside the family business. Her summer gig? Ranch-sitting for her aunt with her wacky but beautiful sister. Only the Goodnight Ranch is even less normal than it normally is. Bodies are being discovered, a ghost is on the prowl, and everywhere she turns, the hot neighbor cowboy is in her face.
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Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2011:
"This engaging mystery has plenty of both paranormal and romance, spiced with loving families and satisfyingly packed with self-sufficient, competent girls."
Starred Review, School Library Journal, August 2011:
"It’s hard to picture a successful merging of Texas ranching culture with psychic ghost-hunting and witchcraft, but that’s what Clement-Moore has achieved in this novel laced with great characters, a healthy dose of humor, and a nod to popular culture...Teens looking for a rollicking adventure filled with paranormal events, dastardly evildoers, and laugh-out-loud moments as Amy and Ben argue and snipe their way to love will adore this book."
"This engaging mystery has plenty of both paranormal and romance, spiced with loving families and satisfyingly packed with self-sufficient, competent girls."
Starred Review, School Library Journal, August 2011:
"It’s hard to picture a successful merging of Texas ranching culture with psychic ghost-hunting and witchcraft, but that’s what Clement-Moore has achieved in this novel laced with great characters, a healthy dose of humor, and a nod to popular culture...Teens looking for a rollicking adventure filled with paranormal events, dastardly evildoers, and laugh-out-loud moments as Amy and Ben argue and snipe their way to love will adore this book."
About the Author
ROSEMARY CLEMENT-MOORE lives and writes in Arlington, Texas. Texas Gothic is her fifth book for young readers. You can visit Rosemary at ReadRosemary.com.
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Rosemary Clement-Moore loves dogs, horses, sailing, vintage fashion, history, old movies, Gilbert and Sullivan, Guitar Hero, BBC America, and books. Lots and lots of books. You can visit her webpage at www.rosemaryclementmoore.com.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By anne-marie
Format:Hardcover
Texas Gothic is filled with charming quirkiness, and great writing. What's there not to like with a cute cranky cowboy, tree climbing Houdini goats, Go Go Gadget Gidget girl, rump scratching cows, and a love story like a prize fight.
Amy Goodnight is an island of normal in a sea of crazy. As the self appointed Gatekeeper, Amy straddles the line between magic and mundane constantly providing damage control for her above average family. The Goodnight's are witches, each with a different affinity, and to the dismay of Amy, none of them are shy about their abilities.
Amy's PR talents are about to be tested. She and her sister Phin are looking after their Aunt Hy's farm for the summer. Everyone in the small Texas town has an opinion about the crazy Goodnights and it doesn't help that the sleepy town has seemingly awaken with paranormal activity since the girls arrival. There's quite a lot of chatter about a rogue ghost on the loose knocking people out, skeletal remains are popping up at the perpetually cranky yet hunky neighbor's ranch, and a spirit is personally haunting Amy.
Amy is going to have to except who and what she is, find some balance between her two worlds, and along with her friends, they are going to have figure out what's really going on with the pestering poltergeist to save her Goodnight name and possibly her life.
Clement-Moore doesn't write hardcore paranormal, she writes normal with a certain slant of the unusual. Rosemary's strength is her witty writing style, and wonderfully rich characters, which hits a definite high in Texas Gothic. In most books the main character is the author's focus in development and spotlight. Here the supporting cast doesn't get left behind but blossomed. I loved all the players in this book. They were interesting and distinctive like her work. Fans of Hex Hall and Paranormalcy will like the snarky quirky prose.
There's nothing negative I can say. Lots of laughs. Great characters, good story line, a romantic love story, and perfect prose that pulls you in. If you need a literary vacation then pick up a copy of Texas Gothic and get completely entrench by the writing.
Amy Goodnight is an island of normal in a sea of crazy. As the self appointed Gatekeeper, Amy straddles the line between magic and mundane constantly providing damage control for her above average family. The Goodnight's are witches, each with a different affinity, and to the dismay of Amy, none of them are shy about their abilities.
Amy's PR talents are about to be tested. She and her sister Phin are looking after their Aunt Hy's farm for the summer. Everyone in the small Texas town has an opinion about the crazy Goodnights and it doesn't help that the sleepy town has seemingly awaken with paranormal activity since the girls arrival. There's quite a lot of chatter about a rogue ghost on the loose knocking people out, skeletal remains are popping up at the perpetually cranky yet hunky neighbor's ranch, and a spirit is personally haunting Amy.
Amy is going to have to except who and what she is, find some balance between her two worlds, and along with her friends, they are going to have figure out what's really going on with the pestering poltergeist to save her Goodnight name and possibly her life.
Clement-Moore doesn't write hardcore paranormal, she writes normal with a certain slant of the unusual. Rosemary's strength is her witty writing style, and wonderfully rich characters, which hits a definite high in Texas Gothic. In most books the main character is the author's focus in development and spotlight. Here the supporting cast doesn't get left behind but blossomed. I loved all the players in this book. They were interesting and distinctive like her work. Fans of Hex Hall and Paranormalcy will like the snarky quirky prose.
There's nothing negative I can say. Lots of laughs. Great characters, good story line, a romantic love story, and perfect prose that pulls you in. If you need a literary vacation then pick up a copy of Texas Gothic and get completely entrench by the writing.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By cornellk
Format:Hardcover
Everybody has that normal one in the family. You know the one. She sort of holds everything together when your crazy aunt is off making potions and magic organic household products, shampoos, soaps, and hand sanitizers, and your genius sister is popping fuses every time she tries to test her latest invention.
She's the responsible one. The one who answers the phone every time; the one with the normal future that doesn't involve getting swept up in mystery; the one who does it because she loves you no matter how weird things get in the nuthouse.
That's Amy Goodnight. She's ranch-sitting for her aunt (and baby-sitting her brilliant but intellectually distracted sister). Until construction on a bridge unearths a body and a ghost won't leave Amy alone. She struggles to maintain her aura of normalcy in front of the neighbor cowboy, Ben *cat-growl* as well as the Anthropology crew that shows up to take care of the body.
Make that "bodies". As the body count grows higher, Amy's might be the next one to be buried if she can't get the whole ghost thing under control.
Witty, sarcastic, dramatically ironic. Just...bloody brilliant.
She's the responsible one. The one who answers the phone every time; the one with the normal future that doesn't involve getting swept up in mystery; the one who does it because she loves you no matter how weird things get in the nuthouse.
That's Amy Goodnight. She's ranch-sitting for her aunt (and baby-sitting her brilliant but intellectually distracted sister). Until construction on a bridge unearths a body and a ghost won't leave Amy alone. She struggles to maintain her aura of normalcy in front of the neighbor cowboy, Ben *cat-growl* as well as the Anthropology crew that shows up to take care of the body.
Make that "bodies". As the body count grows higher, Amy's might be the next one to be buried if she can't get the whole ghost thing under control.
Witty, sarcastic, dramatically ironic. Just...bloody brilliant.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Dear Rosemary Clement-Moore,
I know you wrote TEXAS GOTHIC for yourself and not for me especially (Althoughitsurefeltlikeyoudid, didyourealizethat?), but I thought you should know some of the reasons I think it's the BEST BOOK YOU'VE EVER WRITTEN:
a.) The gorgeous word choices that stop me in my tracks, the ones that make me remember how much I appreciate stellar writing. (Anyone who can use the word `cabal' as effectively as you do, deserves some kind of Hermione-Granger-Smart-Girl-Snark Lifetime Achievement Award)
b.) The fabulous, dead on analogies that make me nod my head and help me understand and relate to the character's precise emotion: "...cognitive dissonance up to eleven."
c.) The delicious, complicated, sweet Tracy and Hepburn/John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara flavored relationship built between Ben and Amy. TEXAS GOTHIC is the kind of romance freshly painted in a gothic palette with touches of DuMaurier's REBECCA and classics such as TURN OF THE SCREW.
d.) The terrific characterizations, including loyal, half nerd, half not-so-crazy loon Phin and every-ranching-patriarch-I-ever-known-in real-life Grandad Mac. (I grew up in a ranching town, and I know you did, too. You've really captured the small touches of ranch life.)
e.) The Goodnight family's tea shop products which I picture marketed in Philosophie meets Practical Magic packaging.
f.) Finally, I love that I can successfully turn off my editorial mind and just bask in appreciation of a truly good book.
This one's definitely a keeper.
Your Constant Reader,
Jenny (Who Would, Thank You Very Much, Like a Sequel Soon.)
I know you wrote TEXAS GOTHIC for yourself and not for me especially (Althoughitsurefeltlikeyoudid, didyourealizethat?), but I thought you should know some of the reasons I think it's the BEST BOOK YOU'VE EVER WRITTEN:
a.) The gorgeous word choices that stop me in my tracks, the ones that make me remember how much I appreciate stellar writing. (Anyone who can use the word `cabal' as effectively as you do, deserves some kind of Hermione-Granger-Smart-Girl-Snark Lifetime Achievement Award)
b.) The fabulous, dead on analogies that make me nod my head and help me understand and relate to the character's precise emotion: "...cognitive dissonance up to eleven."
c.) The delicious, complicated, sweet Tracy and Hepburn/John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara flavored relationship built between Ben and Amy. TEXAS GOTHIC is the kind of romance freshly painted in a gothic palette with touches of DuMaurier's REBECCA and classics such as TURN OF THE SCREW.
d.) The terrific characterizations, including loyal, half nerd, half not-so-crazy loon Phin and every-ranching-patriarch-I-ever-known-in real-life Grandad Mac. (I grew up in a ranching town, and I know you did, too. You've really captured the small touches of ranch life.)
e.) The Goodnight family's tea shop products which I picture marketed in Philosophie meets Practical Magic packaging.
f.) Finally, I love that I can successfully turn off my editorial mind and just bask in appreciation of a truly good book.
This one's definitely a keeper.
Your Constant Reader,
Jenny (Who Would, Thank You Very Much, Like a Sequel Soon.)
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
What do you get when you cross Nancy Drew with Practical Magic?
What do you get when you cross Nancy Drew with Practical Magic? Apparently the answer is hidden behind the cover of Texas Gothic. Read more
Published 6 months ago by The Rekindled Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars
Texas Gothic works
I am sorry to have been mistaken in my previous review. I had finished Texas Gothic and moved on to another and total got them confused.
I enjoyed Texas Gothic!!!! Read more
I enjoyed Texas Gothic!!!! Read more
Published 11 months ago by Karen Franklin
4.0 out of 5 stars
Meet the Goodnights
Eighteen-year-old Amy's place in the family is as protector. Most of the world don't see magic and she seems to be the only one of the Goodnights, a clan of psychics and witches,... Read more
Published 11 months ago by L.M. Seippel
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Reasons to Read "Texas Gothic"
Well, I won't waste time outlining the plot; you can get that anywhere. Instead, here are:
Five Reasons To Read "Texas Gothic"
1.) A good heroine! Read more
Five Reasons To Read "Texas Gothic"
1.) A good heroine! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Tex Thompson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Must Read for this Texas Girl
I was told to read Texas Gothic for several reasons...
I was born & raised in the great state of Texas
My name is Amy (like the main character)
I'm also... Read more
I was born & raised in the great state of Texas
My name is Amy (like the main character)
I'm also... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Reading Teen
4.0 out of 5 stars
Texas Gothic
Ghost stories are my favorite kind of stories. I think I've read every good one out there, and I'm glad I can add Texas Gothic to my list of great ghosty-reads! Read more
Published 13 months ago by Sierra
4.0 out of 5 stars
I have a big crush on witchy books.
I just love the idea of magic in a cauldron, spells from nature, and useless or inconsequential charms in a bottle. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Asher Knight
4.0 out of 5 stars
cute and fun
Witches, ghosts, mystery to unfold and a hot cowboy!!! Need I say more? Well... maybe, this book was a good 3.5 stars for me. Read more
Published 13 months ago by allforlost
3.0 out of 5 stars
Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore
So, growing up I loved reading any and all things vampire, witch and ghost (with a sprinkling of werewolf for good measure. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Heather R.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, fast read
Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore was a fun book to read. It wasn't a family book, and there weren't many topics of discussions to have with the kids, but it was fun... Read more
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