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A review by saidtheraina
Dark Eden by Patrick Carman
3.0
Seven kids are sent to a creepy location to be treated for their phobias.
I started my booktalk with the line "I think my therapist has given up on me." And I think a sad number of middle school kids can identify with the feeling that that invokes. This is often a creepy book, and it goes to places I wasn't expecting it to go. Patrick Carman isn't necessarily the most literary writer out there, but he knows how to hook a book. And horror is all the rage these days. I wanted to get deeper into the characters of the seven kids in this location, but the plot zips along and you don't get to know more than a couple of them very well.
Worth noting: [a:Patrick Arrasmith]'s illustrations at many of the chapter (or is it section?) heads are really really stunning.
I started my booktalk with the line "I think my therapist has given up on me." And I think a sad number of middle school kids can identify with the feeling that that invokes. This is often a creepy book, and it goes to places I wasn't expecting it to go. Patrick Carman isn't necessarily the most literary writer out there, but he knows how to hook a book. And horror is all the rage these days. I wanted to get deeper into the characters of the seven kids in this location, but the plot zips along and you don't get to know more than a couple of them very well.
Worth noting: [a:Patrick Arrasmith]'s illustrations at many of the chapter (or is it section?) heads are really really stunning.