Whistling In the Dark
by Lesley Kagen
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Author: Lesley KagenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: NAL Trade
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Book Review: A child narrator is a tricky challenge
Summary: 2 Stars
I wanted to like this book, I really did. I can see how it would work for some readers who find the child narrator Sally O'Malley charming. But I just failed to connect with her voice or the 1950's setting written with a 2000's mentality in the back of the mind--for example, ethnic slurs are thrown around casually, and a gay man is scorned, as are pregnant teens, but in the end there is a "God loves everybody" kind of feeling, coming at least from Sally. I agree with this overall idea but not did not buy the way it was presented. And, to me the murder mystery was disturbing without being particularly intriguing.
If this book interests you I would recommend: To Kill a Mockingbird (of course), Dovey Coe with a young Appalachian heroine, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden a creepy new mystery/fairy tale written from precocious German girl's point of view, or In the Woods, Tana French's atmospheric mystery that conjurs up a real sense of terror and suspense when children go missing.
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