My 12yo recommended this book to me, so I added it to my Dewey's Readathon stack. It's pretty bad. 
 There are too many characters and inconsistencies and unrealistic dialogue. It reads like an episode of Scooby Doo without the fun guest stars. And really... everyone around him just happens to be somehow connected to the supernatural and he's just now finding it out? And he's given a cell phone and yet he keeps borrowing someone else's to make calls? And don't even get me started on the death-defying escapes, one after another after another. 
 If I hadn't wanted a quick read to fill out my list of completed books for the readathon and if I didn't feel a need to read the whole thing because my daughter recommended it, I would have put it down early on. But I finished it, so it gets two stars instead of one.