Growing Around: Party Panic

by John Enter

Sally Dunn is your typical eight-year-old in a not-so-typical world - one where kids rule and adults get schooled. It's fun to be in charge, but it's never easy. When Sally goes shopping, she needs to buy the right toys to make her whole family happy (and her parents never seem to like her choices). When Sally goes driving, she needs to try her best to not bump the other kids too hard. And she makes sure respects everyone else’s choice of pets, whether they be a tiny little dog or a huge elephant.

All of this becomes more difficult when Sally gets a Party Duty letter and is forced to entertain the entire town. Even with her friends by her side, it’s going to be difficult when the mayor seems to have it out for her in this enticing adventure where the people are Growing Around.

106 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2016

Reviews

[Terrible Book Club · Rating 2 out of 5]

In Episode 47 - Growing Around: Party Panic by John 'Enter' Rozanski, we solve a child's puzzle box and get sucked into the sticky, horrifying interpretation of reality that is Growing Around. In this other dimension, children run the entire world and the unintended consequences of this arrangement smother any potential that Mr. Rozanski's concept might have had.

Imagine Hellraiser, but instead of Pinhead offering you the heights of pain/pleasure, it's a cute child luring you into her world of candy, ponies, and endless playtime. Rather than being flayed alive, dismembered, or otherwise horribly tortured in a physical sense, you're instead damned to be your child's canvas for humiliation. Enslaved by your child masters, you are crippled by the fear of displeasing them.

Thanks to our listener Letty for recommending we read this!

[Erik · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh, God help us. Not another awful book written by a YouTuber.

A little background on this guy: MrEnter is a cartoon reviewer who takes cartoons way too seriously. To just give you one example...he got upset for three days because of an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic that he didn't like. He is autistic, and if anything, he gives us autistic people a bad name by making us look like whiny cartoon-obsessed manchildren. He has a very short temper and is prone to angry tirades. His videos are full of angry yelling, ranting, and a complete lack of humor. He also likes to create sob stories about how everyone around him treats him like shit. He's been getting worse in recent years - he is also a COVID-19 denier and an anti-vaxxer. He also went on a bizarre tirade in his Turning Red review because the movie didn't mention 9/11.

As for the book itself, it's pretty terrible, with unlikable characters, bad worldbuilding, angry tirades that have nothing to do with the plot, and a crapload of spelling and grammatical errors. This book could unintentionally give people the idea that autistic people can't be good writers.

This book belongs in the garbage, not on a bookshelf.

[Mageed · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a book i have grown to love from a Youtuber like Mr. Enter, i might as well be proud of his work and effort he put into it, i actually want to read through the whole series.

[Red · Rating 2 out of 5]

I remember that this is six years old now, and thus this book is old enough to drive inside the Growing Around world.

Why are there two parodies of Pokemon in one book? What's a Snatchamon? What is a Ginomon? Are these both Pokemon franchises or is one Digimon? Why can't we have any clarity?

The mom begging and pleading to add nutrition to the food but is always being refused and nobody is obese from this junk food binge? How does that work? Please. Her mom wants to eat the veggies, let her!

I can't meme on this more because so many people have done it. I'm not original.

[Laura L · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. There were quite a few flaws in it, with spelling and grammar. Mr. Enter definitely needed an editor for this book. I wish there had been a bit more world building so the reader understood the universe of this book a little better. Other than those two flaws this was an interesting read, not bad at all. Good job on your first novel Mr. Enter.

[LapisRabbit · Rating 1 out of 5]

Simply awful. Horrible writing, numerous plot holes, and worse of all, so many damn cliches...

[Kayloo Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This a anazing, well written book that;s tootally noy a ripppodd of a sitty Disny cannal piot!!!!!!!!