Friday, March 21, 2014

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke - OPTIONAL

Tucholke, April Genevieve  Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, 360 pgs.  Dial Books, 2013.  $17.99  Content: Language: R (111 swears; 3 “F”); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13/R.  

Violet and her twin, Luke live in a rundown mansion by the sea.  Their parents are artists and have left them on their own, so they rent out the guesthouse in an attempt to get money for groceries.  River shows up to live in the guest house and he and Violet become more than friends, but around the town dark and sinister things begin to happen.  Violet can’t discern whether the things that are happening are because of River, or if the devil has really shown up in her small town of Echo.   

This book is creepy with dark characters and magic powers.  Violet frustrated me sometimes because she knew something was wrong, but she didn’t do anything about it, she just let life happen to her.  There is obviously a lot of swearing and the violence was a cut throat and torture.  As an adult, I was entertained by this book and thought it was creative, and maybe I would have given it advisable, but the swearing and violence moves it to optional.   

HS-OPTIONAL.  Reviewer, C. Peterson. 

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