Coleen

I really liked this story. It's mostly from the p.o.v of Fabiola an American born citizen who moved back to Haiti when she was a baby but is now back inAmerica with her Matant Jo(aunt) and her three cousins in Detroit. There is no messing with her cousins everyone knows the three B's. It's about love and family and sticking together. Overall a good read.

This book is not for the faint of heart. I'm a splatter punk fan and even some of the scenes gave me the willies. Well written great characters. I didn't like that one of the boys was wearing an obvious I am a bad seed sign.Other than that great book.

This was a good middle grade realistic fiction but not the best I've read. I did feel like the parents were written oddly. I know if it was my kid who accidentally caused the death of another child I would think the signs that the little bit of counseling he got wasn't working since my child was acting out the way Trent did in the book. I did think Trent was an interesting character and I liked Fallon. Although I do think a lot of middle graders who this book was written for would be annoyed by the fact that Fallon who hints at the terrible ways she got her facial scar,none of them true, finally goes to tell the real story and the audience doesn't find out. As an adult I can appreciate that knowing what caused someone to be scarred like Fallon is wouldn't change how I felt about her,but I'm betting some of the middle graders who read this book don't understand that and will be disappointed not to know.

Overall a decent book with well written main character.

I feel like I just punished myself by finishing this book. I'm sure other people will like the book and the main character, Eleanor. For me I'm not on board. I couldn't stand Eleanor, I just cringed constantly while reading about her. However I kept expecting the book to get better, and it never did. So... maybe not the book for me.

You know there are many Stephen King books that I love until all of the sudden the end happens. Not because the book is ending but I just don't like the ending it almost feels like someone else wrote the ending. His short stories are a different matter those I usually love how they're written, ending and all. Anyway the reason this book got a 4 star rating was because I actually liked the ending. The book was very good, more thriller mystery rather than horror. Although the scenario where a person who has serious mental health issues and probably PTSD from their screwed up childhood(yes PTSD happens in abused children) kills people on a whim and find he/she likes it is a horror story. Unfortunately this horror is pretty based in reality here in the U.S. Writing and story overall good but I'm giving extra points because I liked how the ending was written.