Pure Dead Wicked
Style: Average
Attitude: Positive
Series: Pure Dead
Publisher: Transworld
Published in: 2002
Age Range: Pre Teens+
Period: Contemporary
Setting: Castle Stregaschloss, Scotland
Genres: Family , Humorous , Magic
Characters:
- See The "Pure Dead" Series
Synopsis:
The roof of Stregaschloss has collapsed, and the Strega-Borgias are forced to live in the local hotel while their house is being repaired. Unknown to them, the builder they have employed is in fact trying to make things worse so that they will be forced to sell the land which he can then redevelop for a profit.
Meanwhile, the hotel owner's wife is trying to seduce Luciano, something which the family unites in preventing. Titus, accidentally helped by Damp, has created 500 mini clones of himself and Pandora which he must keep secret from the rest of his family, and the Beasts have had enough of the hotel stables and have dug their way to freedom.
Notes:
See The “Pure Dead” Series
Boxing Day at StregaSchloss had traditionally been spent in a heap of half-built Lego models, picking at the cold remains of Christmas lunch, and later, in the company of mountains of tangerines and boxes of chocolates, watching classic films in a room that always smelt of woodsmoke and pine needles. The Strega- Borgias always took the phone off the hook, the great-great-great-great-grandmother out of the freezer and finished the day by playing charades in the library. Not so this year. On this Boxing Day the Auchenlochtermuchty Arms offered little in the way of seasonal comfort. It appeared to be a day in the hotel management calendar for which the word anticlimax had been invented
Sunday 17th August 2003