This was getting rapturous previews. Like the second coming of Freedom. So I felt compelled to get it at the library and be among the first to read it. It started off well, the odd Bigtree family own and work on a Florida island Alligator Wrestling Theme Park . A new and shiny mainland theme park threatens their way of life. The mother dies, the father and son go off separately to the mainland. The 12 year old narrator and her 16 year old sister stay behind. It starts out not bad, it rises to the level of Geek Love in ways but then towards the ending it goes really bad. Like the author suddenly couldn't figure out what to do and picked an ending out of a variety of tired cliches. Too bad, she had me going for awhile.
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Thanks for this review. I was just sloshing into muddy waters with the audible version of this book before TCR enabled me to avoid a quagmirian commitment to finish.
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