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A review by silea
Save the Enemy by Arin Greenwood
2.0
This book has an interesting premise. Dead mom, autistic brother, kidnapped dad, what's a girl to do? Oh, right, get mom's help because she communicates with the brother in his dreams.
But it goes off the rails, first in small ways and then in gigantic leaps that make the Transformers movies seem intricately plotted and entirely plausible.
The first time i really noticed it was when the girl is less upset about a random classmate basically moving into her house than she is about the fact that she apparently can't use the toilet with a non-family male in the house. Her dad's kidnapping bothers her less than her self-imposed constipation.
Then it becomes, quite frankly, nonsense.
I can't even imagine the target market for this book, except perhaps teenage girls who have toiletting issues.
But it goes off the rails, first in small ways and then in gigantic leaps that make the Transformers movies seem intricately plotted and entirely plausible.
The first time i really noticed it was when the girl is less upset about a random classmate basically moving into her house than she is about the fact that she apparently can't use the toilet with a non-family male in the house. Her dad's kidnapping bothers her less than her self-imposed constipation.
Then it becomes, quite frankly, nonsense.
I can't even imagine the target market for this book, except perhaps teenage girls who have toiletting issues.