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A review by joshhansonhorror
The Boxes by William Sleator
2.0
Sleator's weird, distant tone can be effective sometimes, but here it's very difficult to see past. Mostly, that's due to the fact that the distant tone belongs to our protagonist, a 13 year old girl.
I love the moral complexity that's introduced early on, but the book doesn't have any way of dealing with the moral questions once they've been posed.
And the ending is not an ending at all but a beginning to the next book in the series, which I doubt I'll be reading.
I love the moral complexity that's introduced early on, but the book doesn't have any way of dealing with the moral questions once they've been posed.
And the ending is not an ending at all but a beginning to the next book in the series, which I doubt I'll be reading.