Reviews for Nursing research, mistakes and misconceptions

The average rating for Nursing research, mistakes and misconceptions based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-05-27 00:00:00 Shelly Vollmann This book has everything that I as a kid loved, mystery, ghosts, and a boy and girl. I read this is middle school, then read it again sometime later. I love ghost stories and this was perfect in that regard. This is why I love reading, because of good stories like this that had everything you wanted. I remember her riding bikes with the boy, maybe it was implied or stated that they liked each other. There was also a smelling of rose perfume I think, if I remember correctly, and some letters or something that tied to the ghost of the woman. I wish I remembered more, but it's been too long since I've read it. By the second time I read, I wish there had been more romance even though they were kids. I always liked romance, even in YA novels, so I wish there had been more of that. But this is an interesting read and it will keep readers interested. I first read this in middle school and this is the third time I've read it. I love ghost stories and there was a boy in here and that is right up my alley. It's been so many years since I last read this. I didn't remember that Drew had a little brother or that their parents had been killed and they were orphaned and living with a friend's family. There was some mystery surrounding why her dad had never mentioned Rose Hill or that they had a grandpa and an aunt. Their aunt didn't explain why her dad never talked about it, and she dismissed her paintings of Rose Hill with Rose bushes by the drive. I remembered roses on the wallpaper of a room, and her needing a journal and one appearing in a desk. The aunt bought her a new one at the end. Grandfather reacted badly to meeting them, a grumpy, mean old man. He said Evan was nothing like him, and Aunt Jocelyn later told them their dad and her had had a younger brother named Evan who died at age 6 in an accident. She was also closed up about the roses that used to be there. I perked up at the mention of Will, who comes once a week to weed the flowers and tend to the yard and garden. He's near her age. Drew is 14. He told her of how mad Aunt Jocelyn got when he suggested planting roses, and how he'd seen a blonde woman in the upstairs window a few times. Drew explained away that she'd probably had a rough day with her grandpa and asked "You don't believe in ghosts, do you?" She thought he was a kid with a big imagination. I can't stand heroines who don't believe in ghosts. Aunt Jocelyn reacted badly when Drew mentioned she and Will had gone to the pond. She didn't want her or Evan going anywhere near there so of course we knew the woman had drowned in the pond. Drew had a little bit of an attitude problem. She kept thinking of what the Tildens had done with them, trying to trick Evan into talking by asking him different kinds of questions, and Tillie for giving her a stuffed unicorn that she didn't like. It was nice of her to give you a gift when she didn't have to. It's not their fault their house didn't feel like home. Mrs. Tilden even said Tillie thought of her as a sister, and Drew thought something like "She didn't have a sister." And they were just trying to help Evan through the grief process; what's wrong with that? It was like she was determined not to like them. And she was all in with the new family she didn't even know she had, just because they were family. Drew had tried to get into the center room but the door wouldn't open as if it was blocked, and just like in the attic when she'd tried to open the box, she felt freezing cold and smelled the nauseating smell of roses. When Will asked if she'd been in the room, she didn't answer and said she didn't believe in ghosts. Will asked to help her try to open the room, and she didn't want to experience the cold again, and so she said Aunt Jocelyn wouldn't like it. He told her to invite him over and they'd go through the things in the attic. I was like why would Aunt Jocelyn not want the boy who's been doing all the yard work to come into the house? That was so unfair. Drew had found a stuffed bunny in the attic and kept waiting to take it for when she had permission, but Evan beat her to it. He claimed it had appeared in his room and he'd never been in the attic. All without speaking, of course, only responding to her questions, because he doesn't talk. Drew heard voices coming from his room and thought he was singing and would be speaking soon. When I had heard of their uncle who'd died as a boy, I remembered that element of the story and knew whose voice it was in Evan's room. When Drew and Will went to the library, she noticed the kid's section was named after Amalie and Evan Broderick. Aunt Jocelyn said Amalie had been her step-mother and she'd drowned with Evan in the pond. It really bothers me when characters doubt that there's a heaven. Drew didn't even want to think about it, felt that people are just gone like they'd never been. "So what did it matter if there was another life after?" "...everyone they ever mattered to got left behind." Um, no. The point of an afterlife is that everyone will be in that afterlife, so you don't lose anyone. No one would just "be gone" like she thinks. How could it not matter if there was an afterlife?? I didn't like how she handled death and heaven. Aunt Jocelyn said "if there's a heaven" and she hopes there is. Drew also said "whatever has stolen her first life--God, fate, the universe--has given her this one, not to take its place but to let her continue..." I didn't like how the author said God stole her life. Will and Drew investigated the drawing room, and Amalie eventually appeared as mist and her arrival was heralded by cold and that nauseating rose smell. Drew felt evil and was so scared she pulled Will out without letting him ask Amalie anything. But after talking to Will and hearing him explain that's how ghosts manifest, using heat and the area growing cold, she started feeling bad. She thought Amalie was the one consoling Evan and tried to put up with the cold so she could learn the message they thought Amalie was trying to relate. She kept wondering why she got the cold feeling and Evan got singing. And then she finally put together that the A on the box she'd found when she first got there stood for Amalie and the feelings she'd experienced meant that Amalie had been there. When she went through the box she found letters to Amalie from a friend, commenting on how sending Jocelyn to art school would be getting rid of her and how Broderick was a fool and Evan was a brat and Amalie couldn't be the mom to someone else's kids and she'd established her reputation. She also ordered her to destroy her journal in which she's written everything down. I was so pleased that Drew had the wherewithal to put those letters under her mattress, and she pushed the dresser against her door at night. Not that it kept Amalie from coming, but it was a good try. That night Amalie stared with hatred and she had confirmation that Amalie wasn't who everyone thought she was. Her dad had been the only one who didn't like her. Aunt Jocelyn annoyingly didn't think the letters proved anything, and believed Amalie that her friend was crazy. She said Drew's dad had found the letters and the argument with grandpa when he'd left. I liked when Drew wondered if Amalie would win, get to keep the house and family when she didn't need it, and her and Evan would have to leave when they were the ones who needed it. Drew said Amalie hadn't won yet. Drew told Will everything about the letters and her dad and Aunt Jocelyn's reaction. They went to search Amalie's writing room for the journal and Jocelyn caught them and blew up on them, called Will a stranger and forbade him from ever coming into the house. I couldn't stand her. When Will had first showed Drew the pond, I remembered that she's been out at night and ran from the ghost and got stuck in the pond. But Evan came and yelled her name, speaking for the first time, and she stopped before she went too deep. She was even able to pull herself out. It was much-needed when Drew had spent the night in Evan's room and had learned that Evan their uncle had been visiting Evan and singing to him, and he knew where the journal was. Amalie guarded the location and was too dangerous to go near. Will had the idea to stay with Evan while they lured Amalie away from the writing room so Drew could look for the diary. It was suspenseful and had some much-needed action. I just wish it had happened sooner in the book. With Evan the ghost's help, Drew found the journal. But Evan had been scared into the pond and Drew and Jocelyn had to pull him it. Jocelyn finally learned the truth of Amalie, but she wasn't going to tell her dad and ruin his great love. I wish she had. I wanted him to feel so bad at believing his gold digging young wife over his son who is now dead too. He deserved that. I actually teared up as Evan one started singing his song and Jocelyn said he used to sing that all the time, and Evan said he was going. A rely emotional moment, and Jocelyn got to say bye to her brother. I had expected an apology of some admission of being so wrong and blind about Amalie, and not believing her own brother about this stranger. Drew realized they were home and the book ended just like that. I was so disappointed that nothing happened between her and Will, that there wasn't a hint of love. Somewhere I thought they had kissed or held hands or something, but there was nothing like that. I wanted to at least know how old he was, and if they'd been at school together. It was funny how Will had suggested that the ghost had been jilted by a lover and was waiting at the window for him. Drew asked why did she have to be the jilted one, and suggested she had been forced to marry someone but fell in love with someone else, and her rich husband killed her. And it was funny that neither Drew nor Will thought Amalie's poems were any good. Will saw why it was privately printed and thought they couldn't have been printed any other way. And when Drew got done reading Amalie's book of poetry, she felt like she'd read her way through an entire greeting-card store. When Will had the idea to stay with Evan and lure Amalie out, he said all he'd have to do is think what a bad poet she was, memorize one of the really schmaltzy poems if he got scared. The pacing is a little too slow. This is one of the best ghost stories because it has depth. It's not as generic as a lot of stories. Yes, it has cold spots and a convenient way of manifesting and flying after people in a way I don't really believe is realistic, but on the whole it felt mostly unique. I was a bit bothered that as soon as Drew arrived at Rose Hill she saw movement in the window. It's just like a Betty Wren Wright novel where the heroine sees something in the window as soon as she arrives. It's not the first or last ghost novel to have a murder solved and a murderous ghost outed, but it was different in that their dad had known about her and his daughter solved the case he hadn't been able to. Amalie was remembered to be so nice but it was the exact opposite. And they lured her away to get to the proof of her evilness. It was way too easy that Amalie had written down her nefarious plot to drown a 6 year old boy and make it look like an accident. That's like murder 101. You don't leave a trace of evidence. Who would be stupid enough to lay out a detailed plan of how they're going to carry about a murder? Way too convenient.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-22 00:00:00 Kenneth Tucker 14-year-old Drew (love that name for a female character!) and her 8-year-old brother Evan have just experienced an unthinkable tragedy: their parents died in a freak explosion at their house, and, not having any other family, they have to go live with an aunt and grandfather they never knew they had. The good thing is that these long-lost relatives live in a gorgeous sprawling estate called Rose Hill. And, though Grandfather is a curmudgeonly old man bed-ridden with leukemia, Aunt Jocelyn seems pretty cool. She's not warm and fuzzy, but she pays attention to Drew and Evan, and she doesn't make a fuss over the fact that Evan lost his ability to speak after the accident. So they settle into Rose Hill. Evan spends a lot of time in his new bedroom with the door closed, but Drew explores the dusty old attic and Rose Hill's grounds. She does some of her exploring with the gardener, Will, who's about her age. They strike up a fast friendship, and Will starts to tell Drew about some of the ghostly goings-on at Rose Hill. Specifically, he's convinced that he saw a phantom face in one of the upstairs windows. After this revelation, Drew starts to experience some strange things herself - the strong smell of roses and frigid cold spots crop up when she's in either the attic or the writing room. Acting as amateur sleuths, Drew and Will decide to figure out the identity of the ghost. They figure it has to be tied into Drew's family's hazy past - a past that no one (not her late father, and not Aunt Jocelyn) will talk about. Fortunately, a trip to the local library and a conversation with a chatty librarian is able to set the record straight. The librarian, a former classmate of Aunt Jocelyn's, reveals the tragic truth about the accident that claimed the lives of both Amalie Broderick (Drew's step-grandmother) and her stepson (Drew's uncle). Now Drew and Will are certain that Amalie Broderick is the one haunting Rose Hill, but they still haven't figured out why. Once they pin down the ghost's identity, the haunting seems to grow more sinister. Drew is certain that the ghost wants to keep her out of the writing room, and will stop at nothing to achieve that goal. Drew is constantly terrified, and realizes that if she and Evan want to stay at Rose Hill, they have to get rid of Amalie's ghost. She and Will continue to do more sleuthing, trying desperately to figure out WHY Amalie is haunting Rose Hill and what they can do to stop it. -- This one has all the elements of a great ghost story: an old sprawling estate; a dusty attic filled with stuff from the past; forbidden rooms; a dark and mysterious family history. That said, it's pretty quiet for a ghost story, and the actual ghost isn't all that scary. It was a good mystery, though - I enjoyed watching Drew uncover and lock together pieces of her family's past, ultimately revealing the whole tragic story. The way Amalie's ghost leads a hypnotized Drew into the pond reminded me of Wait Till Helen Comes, and, indeed, I think this would be a good recommendation for anyone who enjoys Mary Downing Hahn's books.