Johnson, Anna . Looking For Red. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 214 pages.(Horror)
Have you ever been haunted by a loved one who has passed on? Well in Looking For Red Mike (short for Michaela) has. She is being haunted by her older brother, Red, who has just recently died. Mike lives in Cape Cod which might sound like a nice place to vacation, but not for Mike who keeps seeing Red everywhere she goes. She can’t let him go; she hangs out with his friends, she goes to his favorite places, and sometimes wears his clothes. But when she really misses him she surrounds herself with his Blue beads that he collected ever since he was little. Every time she lies on her belly in her room with those beads surrounding her she gets lost in an ocean of blue. Shortly after Red died his best friend, Mark, Crashes his car into Red’s favorite restaurant. He gets badly injured but what he wanted to happen doesn’t. Mark wanted to be able to see red again, he wanted to die. Mark has been put on suicide watch at the hospital, and Mike goes to see him every day until he can leave. One day Red’s girlfriend, Mona, comes to Mike’s house and sits in the drive way singing for 45 minutes. Then Mike comes out, they go for a ride. Mona takes Mike to an aquarium, a huge one. After mark gets out of the hospital they meet him on a bridge that Red used to come to, to think. Mike gets constant flashbacks about the horrible day that no one that lives on the cape should ever forget. Dive in to help Mike look for her brother and enjoy a timeless story.
I think that anyone that likes a chilling ghost story should read this book. Every time I picked it up I didn’t want to put it down. Every time I read a page, those pages quickly turned into chapters and then I had finished the book. I loved the book so much I am on the lookout for more books by the author.
Reviewed by: WaddlesThePenguin
