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The Bad Seed by William March
4.0
So creeeeepy! The ending was just perfect!
I stumbled across this book after reading the acknowledgements from a similar YA book, and I knew I had to read it.
“LATER THAT SUMMER, when Mrs. Penmark looked back and remembered, when she was caught up in despair so deep that she knew there was no way out, no solution whatever for the circumstances that encompassed her, it seemed to her that June seventh, the day of the Fern Grammar School picnic, was the day of her last happiness, for never since then had she known contentment or felt peace.”
We see the events unfold from Christine Penmark’s point of view from the opening line. Penmark’s daughter, Rhoda, is a beautiful and highly intelligent little girl with a dark side. This psychological thriller traces Christine’s discovery of Rhoda’s innate evil and the cold indifference of her actions. But more than that, Christine’s own past adds another layer to the story that is revealed as the narrator discovers it herself.
I’ve heard there’s a movie, but I haven’t seen it. I can only imagine it to be on par with The Omen - one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen.
I stumbled across this book after reading the acknowledgements from a similar YA book, and I knew I had to read it.
“LATER THAT SUMMER, when Mrs. Penmark looked back and remembered, when she was caught up in despair so deep that she knew there was no way out, no solution whatever for the circumstances that encompassed her, it seemed to her that June seventh, the day of the Fern Grammar School picnic, was the day of her last happiness, for never since then had she known contentment or felt peace.”
We see the events unfold from Christine Penmark’s point of view from the opening line. Penmark’s daughter, Rhoda, is a beautiful and highly intelligent little girl with a dark side. This psychological thriller traces Christine’s discovery of Rhoda’s innate evil and the cold indifference of her actions. But more than that, Christine’s own past adds another layer to the story that is revealed as the narrator discovers it herself.
I’ve heard there’s a movie, but I haven’t seen it. I can only imagine it to be on par with The Omen - one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen.