The Fireside Chats

I’ve finished reading this book today. I loved watching Scooby Doo as a kid. It was one of my favorite cartoons. So, I scooped this book up when I found it at the book store. Fred, Shaggy and Scooby Doo do make sporadic appearances throughout this book but it mostly centers around Daphne and Velma. Daphne is super popular and Velma being your typical nerd. The two had a falling out when they were kids but they end up joining forces, albeit reluctantly, to figure out the mystery at hand. Both girls have their own thoughts and theories about what is going on in the town of Crystal Cove but they do end up figuring out what really happened. I do like the way the book ended.

This book is good for those of you who are interested in a good mystery but this may be geared more more the young adult crowd. There is a little bit of teenage angst in this book, however, it is a good story if you can overlook that.

Synopsis: Popular Daphne Blake and über-nerd Velma Dinkley are not friends. They aren’t enemies either, but they don’t have any reason to speak to each other, and that’s how they prefer it. The two girls grew up together—they’d been best friends since pre-K—but when they hit middle school, Daphne dropped Velma and never looked back.

These days, Daphne’s deep in the popular crowd, daughter of the richest family in town, while Velma’s an outsider, hiding from the world behind her thick glasses. When they run into each other in the halls of Crystal Cove High, they look the other way.

But then Daphne’s best friend, Marcy—who happens to be Velma’s cousin—goes missing. A century ago, there was a wave of disappearances in Crystal Cove, and many local people believe that supernatural forces were behind it. Now the whole town believes those same forces are back…and up to no good.

Daphne and Velma may be the only ones who can solve the mystery and save Marcy—if they can trust each other enough to try. Especially since the truth might be stranger—and scarier—than either girl can imagine…