Language: R (79 swears 6 'f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (Underage drinking and smoking, passionate undescribed kissing ) Violence: PG-13 (Bloody sacrificing of a rabbit, sacrificing son by bleeding him to death, father plunges knife into son’s chest)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
18yo Elwood runs away when he overhears his father talking about sacrificing him for the church he resides over in the Garden of Adam Community, located in the Upper Peninsula. He’s been told throughout his entire life that he’s a burden. He’s been punished and unloved by his parents. 18yo Wil is sure that her mother was sacrificed by the church and Elwood’s father. Wil and Elwood help each other hide from danger, investigate the community’s weird happenings, and try to find out what happened to Wil’s mother. Their lives will be thrown into chaos before it's over.
I enjoyed the creepy aspect of Elwood’s family and his father’s effect on the community. The prose represents beauty and pain, hurt and happiness, perfectly. The story was too quick to achieve well-developed characters. The ethnicity falls to white.
LynnDell Watson, Delta High School Librarian
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