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Down the Rabbit Hole by Abrahams, Peter [HarperCollins, 2006] Paperback [Paperback]
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October 5, 2023
This book is billeted as a children's book. Here's why I wouldn't want to give it to children:
1. Too much swearing and even some blaspheme
2. Too scary
I am not a horror reader, though I'm not opposed to a murder mystery or some true life murder stories (though not many of those). But a child breaking into houses in the middle of the night, for some reason just gave me the jitters. I didn't like that at all. Perhaps because I was listening to it. Perhaps because I have a granddaughter the same age.
It was less of a sleuth story and more of wanting to touch on everything-that-might-be-upsetting-to-a-child book like difficulty in school, a teacher that seems to be against you (though if you never do your homework...), losing things, parents fighting, a brother who is a pest, a dad who insists on his kids being the best in sports and school...see what I mean?
So I didn't finish it and find out who killed Cracked-Up Katie or how the heroine, Ingrid, got out of a situation she got herself into in the first place and I'm afraid I don't care enough to listen to the last chapter.
1. Too much swearing and even some blaspheme
2. Too scary
I am not a horror reader, though I'm not opposed to a murder mystery or some true life murder stories (though not many of those). But a child breaking into houses in the middle of the night, for some reason just gave me the jitters. I didn't like that at all. Perhaps because I was listening to it. Perhaps because I have a granddaughter the same age.
It was less of a sleuth story and more of wanting to touch on everything-that-might-be-upsetting-to-a-child book like difficulty in school, a teacher that seems to be against you (though if you never do your homework...), losing things, parents fighting, a brother who is a pest, a dad who insists on his kids being the best in sports and school...see what I mean?
So I didn't finish it and find out who killed Cracked-Up Katie or how the heroine, Ingrid, got out of a situation she got herself into in the first place and I'm afraid I don't care enough to listen to the last chapter.
September 6, 2025
I was okay
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