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A review by emdoux
We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings
This is Crusher. He’s a rattlesnake. He’s, like, the coolest pet ever—he will, like, eat and kill stuff if you put it in front of him (especially mice) and he’s VICIOUS! He’ll snap up his meal in a SECOND and kill it with his deadly poison.
Except that Crusher, the vicious, evil, ruthless male rattlesnake is a female GOPHER snake, who is neither venomous NOR poisonous (she kills her prey by constricting them). When Gunnar (the boy who found her, captured her and imprisoned her in a terrarium) drops in a dead mouse, hoping Crusher will eat it, she buries it, hating him more and more each second.
When Gunnar drops a live mouse he has named “Breakfast” in with Crusher, the tiny white mouse suddenly becomes part of Crusher’s escape plan. How are a gopher snake and a small mouse supposed to escape not only a terrarium, but a boy’s house – in order to get back to the wild?
Except that Crusher, the vicious, evil, ruthless male rattlesnake is a female GOPHER snake, who is neither venomous NOR poisonous (she kills her prey by constricting them). When Gunnar (the boy who found her, captured her and imprisoned her in a terrarium) drops in a dead mouse, hoping Crusher will eat it, she buries it, hating him more and more each second.
When Gunnar drops a live mouse he has named “Breakfast” in with Crusher, the tiny white mouse suddenly becomes part of Crusher’s escape plan. How are a gopher snake and a small mouse supposed to escape not only a terrarium, but a boy’s house – in order to get back to the wild?