A review by paigelm
Kids of Appetite by David Arnold

2.0

I found the beginning of this book intriguing, opening in an interrogation room and two kids who know how a murder played out, but they have to stall. Pretty interesting, right? I also really liked Victor's, who was the main male protagonist, voice in this story and his relationship with his deceased father. However, certain aspects of this story seem to unbelievable. A bunch of kids living on their own in a greenhouse? Victor leaves his mom for days and no one knows where he is and there is not an all out manhunt for him? I mean he is under the age of 18 and gone for a week. Then Arnold can't resist but tie up everything neatly in a bow, and actually Victor and his new stepdad will get along, and Mad's uncle's murder will not be a big deal, and also there are two brothers from a country in Africa, Uganda, Rwanda? who escaped, but there whole family died, and then were adopted, but the older brother is going to write a book and collects people as chapters...Too much