Reviews

Slugs by Victoria Chess, David T. Greenberg

cwerber's review

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A

4.0

I am not a ten year old boy and this amused me.

babayagareads's review against another edition

5.0

This is metal as hell.

dfroom's review

1.0

I found this on a shelf and had never seen it, so decided to read it. Maybe I’m being too serious or sensitive to this book, but I couldn’t even finish it. It’s basically a book that has a few things of what you could do with a slug if you wanted to. Some were harmless, like taking it for a walk. But then you get into things such as carving one like a pumpkin, sizzling them on light bulbs, and popping them in the microwave?! I don’t care for slugs, but who writes this stuff and would want a child to read it? I understand it’s supposed to be funny...but there’s kids out there that would read it and think to try all these things. Yuck. Definitely avoiding this book forever.

So, I ended up reading the end...and it does slightly justify the story for what happened to the slugs...but it’s still awful.