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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