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A review by chadstep
Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks
5.0
I don't consider myself a mystery reader but this truly grabbed me. It lacked the qualities I dislike in mysteries--the intrepid investigator goodie-goodie/outsider, missing scenes that "hide" a way for the reader to discover the truth, the feeling I get like when I am being les through a maze like a mouse to cheese--which have been part of my reading past that make them boring or distasteful or like trying to scramble up a solid wall without hope.
Black Rabbit Summer had youth, class divisions, English law enforcement, boredom, and even occult-ish aspects that made it enticing. Great one-step-ahead of the law/media feeling and the suspicion of youth which is, of course, misread by the adult community, especially the innocence-gone-wrong moments throughout that definitely made me think, "yeah, that could have been me and my friends" in a fictionalized way. Very trim dialogue and not too much preachy, moralizing. Thanks, Kevin, for making me come back to mysteries.
Black Rabbit Summer had youth, class divisions, English law enforcement, boredom, and even occult-ish aspects that made it enticing. Great one-step-ahead of the law/media feeling and the suspicion of youth which is, of course, misread by the adult community, especially the innocence-gone-wrong moments throughout that definitely made me think, "yeah, that could have been me and my friends" in a fictionalized way. Very trim dialogue and not too much preachy, moralizing. Thanks, Kevin, for making me come back to mysteries.