A Trap in Time

The Celia Rees Supernatural Trilogy #2

by Celia Rees

Davey Williams meets his ghostly friends from the underground city again at Christmastime and struggles to prevent the forces of evil from obtaining the bones discovered in an archaelogical dig.

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Ghosts, Adventure, Paranormal

229 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 2002

About the author

Celia Rees (born 1949) is an English author of children's, YA and Adult fiction.

She was born in 1949 in Solihull, West Midlands but now lives in Leamington Spa with her husband. Rees attended University of Warwick and earned a degree in History of Politics. After university, she taught English in Coventry secondary schools for seventeen years, during which time she began to write.

Since then, she has written over twenty YA titles. Her books have been translated into 28 languages. She has been short listed for the Guardian, Whitbread (now Costa) and W.H. Smith Children’s Book Awards. She is a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She has been Chair of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Group and on the Society of Authors’ Management Committee.

Her first book for adults, Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook, was published by HarperCollins in July, 2020.

Reviews

[Tjala · Rating 2 out of 5]

i thought it was ok but quite predictable and i prefer thhe firwst one.
i really like celia rees as an author but i gueess i left reading the reamins of this trilogy a little bit too late and am a bit old for it now because some of the description is very basic and though dacey goes through a lot each adventure only fitsd into a small amount of pages and the book is more about the build up to those visits in the ghost town.
i do however feel that it has a good storyline and is a good idea; i have never read anything sim,ilar to it, but i think that Celia Rees could do a lot better if she re-wrote it.

[Dayna Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second installment of the Supernatural Trilogy. This is really two separate stories in one. At the beginning of the book, Davey suspects his new drama teacher is really the Grey Lady in disguise. He believes she is intending to do away with him in front of everyone in a play she is setting up for his school. Only his friends can save him, if he can get them to believe him. In the second half of the book, Davey and his friends must save a religious relic from being used for evil by a power-hungry human and the Judge.

[Caitlín K · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's been a long time since I attempted to read this book, so mostly I remember I didn't like it. But I think it was because the plot seemed SO similar as the first one and the children were so stupid! "Hey, it's Halloween, let's run into this haunted house even though we know it's dangerous!" Ugh.

[Rachel Brand · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed all the books in this trilogy, although I can't remember any of the details. Celia Rees was my favourite horror writer when I was a teenager, but these weren't her best books.

[Louise · Rating 3 out of 5]

A goodish book :)