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A review by vermidian
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
1.0
what did i just read
No, seriously, what was that? Did that make sense to any of you? Because that came out of nowhere for me. I don't want to post spoilers, but the ending? Really???
I feel like this book just wanted to be adult Stranger Things at times and Alan Wake at others. It never seemed to solidify for me as something all it's own, which was sort of sad. I desperately wanted to like this book, partially because the idea of it sounded really interesting to me and partly because I really liked the cover design, but I just couldn't bring myself to like it once the ball really started rolling.
All of my complaints about the book are very much plot related and therefore I'm not going to talk about them here, but there were *many* things that just absolutely derailed me in the second half of the book. These moments completely brought me out of the book to vent my frustrations at the lack of logic. I physically had to will myself to finish this book because I'll be damned if I didn't give it my best.
I will say that there are LGBT+ characters and discussion of mental health, though I don't feel that the mental health portions were handled particularly well. There's also some appropriation of native culture as well as a smidge of transphobia. There is only the barest amount of racial diversity, with one main character being Latina and one side character being Native American.
As much as I'd like to recommend this book to others because of how pretty the dang cover is, I cannot find one thing in this book that I absolutely loved and therefore I cannot recommend it to you as a reader. I also must state that this book is absolutely geared toward adults and not children.
No, seriously, what was that? Did that make sense to any of you? Because that came out of nowhere for me. I don't want to post spoilers, but the ending? Really???
I feel like this book just wanted to be adult Stranger Things at times and Alan Wake at others. It never seemed to solidify for me as something all it's own, which was sort of sad. I desperately wanted to like this book, partially because the idea of it sounded really interesting to me and partly because I really liked the cover design, but I just couldn't bring myself to like it once the ball really started rolling.
All of my complaints about the book are very much plot related and therefore I'm not going to talk about them here, but there were *many* things that just absolutely derailed me in the second half of the book. These moments completely brought me out of the book to vent my frustrations at the lack of logic. I physically had to will myself to finish this book because I'll be damned if I didn't give it my best.
I will say that there are LGBT+ characters and discussion of mental health, though I don't feel that the mental health portions were handled particularly well. There's also some appropriation of native culture as well as a smidge of transphobia. There is only the barest amount of racial diversity, with one main character being Latina and one side character being Native American.
As much as I'd like to recommend this book to others because of how pretty the dang cover is, I cannot find one thing in this book that I absolutely loved and therefore I cannot recommend it to you as a reader. I also must state that this book is absolutely geared toward adults and not children.