All Chloe wants is to be truthful. To be a good girl. To make the right decisions. In her day world and night. But it’s very hard. What would you do? This is an entertaining and educational series of children's books on ethical, moral, and legal issues. This series develops and stimulates child’s critical thinking in a controlled environment. This is volume 1 of Ethics Morals Laws B series. Volume 2: www.tinyurl.com/truth-teens2 Volume 3: www.tinyurl.com/truth-teens3 Ages 8+ _________________________________________________________________________________ This series is a continuation of Ethics Morals Laws A series. Volume 1: www.tinyurl.com/truth-kids1 Volume 2: www.tinyurl.com/truth-kids2 Volume 3: www.tinyurl.com/truth-kids3 Ages 4-11 _________________________________________________________________________________
This is bad. This book started out as “so bad it’s good”—that very specific blend of bad writing and story, but nothing problematic or angering. I was enjoying the pedantic framing narrative of asking the reader stupid questions about what the character should do. I was enjoying the bizarrely nebulous age of the main character—is she nine? Is she fifteen? Who knows? The author doesn’t. I was enjoying the aliens-in-human-bodies having conversation, the scenes where I questioned if the author had touched grass this century, and the moments of true bafflement (like when the main character thought about how she takes her new basketball to bed with her every night… what? Every part of that is what?).
But then laughing at the book suddenly became ranting at the book. Without noticing, my patience had chipped away to frustration—at the poor storytelling, at the painful literalism, at the pedantic questions and their insanely out-of-touch answers, at the author’s complete lack of self-awareness, and at every single scene and it’s lack of purpose.
When you ask yourself “what was the point of this scene?” every other page, it’s time to quit.
I did not quit, unfortunately. But I suggest you do. Don’t read this book, it’s bad.