Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Whistling in the Dark - Lesley Kagen


I had mixed feelings while reading this book. It is supposed to evoke the feelings of a bygone fifties neighborhood but it is told through the eyes of a ten-year-old. It is the voice that gets annoying at times, I think. I can't put my finger on it. The kids are naive but at the same time not. I don't know. They are kind of likeable though and I found myself liking the book in the end. Even though the ending is hollywoodish. Sally O'Malley and her younger sister Troo are left to fend for themselves when their mom is sick during a summer when a murderer is on the lose. Sally is also trying to deal with the death a year earlier of her father. 6

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