![]() ![]() This will stay with me for a very long time, somewhere in the recess of my mind. ![]() Which I assume was the writer’s intention, so I think it’s fair to say mission accomplished. ![]() She wakes up one morning to find herself securely tied to her bed: the two young Adams children and their three friends are playing a game. Twenty-year-old Barbara Miller is babysitting for the Adams' while their parents are away for a week. The story itself is well told, fast paced and in a weird way hard to put down (or in this case pause) because although it’s subject matter is so unfathomable, it’s narrative is utterly believable and the need to know how it’s going to end out weighs the disgust and bitterness it leaves in you mind. Let's Go Play at the Adams' Novel by Mendal W Johnson 1974. Because what it boils down in the end is do we ever really know what anyone is capable of, and that’s a terrifying thought. and deadly In the decades since its original publication, Mendal W. I can’t imagine anyone reading or listening to this story and not walking away at the end with it sitting uncomfortably in the back of their minds. While I found it difficult to listen to (on audio book) I was compelled by the complex emotions that are casually strewn throughout the whole book. This is truly a disturbing story of the lost innocence of youth and the cruel nature of human kind. ![]()
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