Jennifer Killick

Book source ~ Tour

Classmates Hallie, Angelo, Gus, and Naira end up serving a Saturday detention together. The horror! No, actually, the horror is much much worse. It’s basically Thunderdome. Four classmates go in, will four classmates come out?

Pigs and chickens and spiders, oh my! This isn’t The Breakfast Club, not by a long shot. Ok, maybe a little bit. All four of our naughty detainees have something in common (besides being classmates and having done a dastardly deed) and they’ll find out what that is before the day is done. The action keeps the plot advancing at an even pace, the horror is sufficiently icky, and the villains are creepy but not too much so (this is MG after all). But what really makes this book shine are the kids. I love how pieces of them are revealed a bit at a time. No, not those kinds of pieces! Nobody is chopped into bits or anything so gross. Eeeeew! I also love how they are basically loners who figure out they have to work together to get out of their dangerous situation alive. And they show incredible courage and fortitude against impossible odds. If you like your MG books to have awesome characters plonked down in an awful situation then this is the tale for you! There’s humor, horror, and humility, oh my!… (mehr)