A review by kristindh
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon

3.0

This was like reading Desperate Housewives through the perspective of a precocious child while child and her best friend search for God???? Yeah, it's as mixed up as it sounds. In the midst of the search for God, you get some mixed in perspectives of her neighbors which start to uncover the town's dirty little secrets.

I think these separate perspectives were also supposed to make these individuals, if not more likable, then more understandable. I definitely did not like many (or maybe any) of them. They were just racist and rude and looking for a reason to Freddy Krueger their weird neighbor without any real proof of wrongdoing. They were less neighbors and more a dangerour mob lying in weight and ready to strike. Listen, don't buy real estate in that neighborhood especially if you are brown and aren't interested in laughing off your neighbor's "harmless" racism or if you aren't ready to trash and then burn down your neighbor's house. How are these people not all in jail?