Title: Black Rabbit SummerAuthor: Kevin Brooks
Rating: 8 of 10
Where I Found It: Library
Summary: When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening - and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet.
General Impression: This is a hard book to really decide how I feel about it. There are so many things done beautifully: the writing style, the emotion, the pacing, the way the narration makes you feel like you're the character (probably more than any other book I've ever read, I'm nothing like Pete, but yet found myself totally in his mindset when I was reading). But then there are a few things that seem so wrong, mainly the ending, it seemed kind of like a cop-out or something. I dunno' having read other books by Kevin Brooks, I know he likes not tying up all the loose ends (because that rarely happens in real life), and I understood him using that route in Being but in that case it was more a character being themselves, but in this book that wasn't the case. Who would I recommend this for? I'm going to do another who wouldn't I recommend this for, easily offended people, immature children, the squeamish and people who need their endings all tied up, but if your none of those people and you love a good mystery this is for you.
-Heather
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