I was on the phone with my boyfriend this past Wednesday night. He knows that I usually read in the evenings, so he asked me what I was reading. I mentioned that I was enjoying a book that I had already read. He then asked, well, what about the book that I bought you on Sunday? I said that I finished it. He was astonished that I finished a book in less than two days. But it was that good that I couldn’t stop. I looked forward to my lunch breaks at work even more so than usual, because I couldn’t wait until being home at night to continue reading this story.
In the midst of recovering from a troubled past, Mallory gets a job that puts her one step closer towards fitting back in with society. An enthusiastic babysitter and lover of children, she transitions from her job at a daycare to a full time nanny gig with a well off family. The pay is great, she gets to live in her own small cabin next to the woods behind the family home, and the little boy she watches is well behaved. It’s a perfect job with a wonderful family. So of course something is going to go wrong.
This is an unsettling mystery that hooks you from the very start. I knew I was going to love it as soon as I saw the last picture in the first set of Teddy’s drawings that Mallory sorts through. I made a low whoosh noise because that one drawing was pretty creepy and kind of out of place from the others. I loved getting spooked, so I immediately got excited because I knew that there were weird and scary things in my future. It didn’t get as scary as I was hoping for, but I was not disappointed in the least because there were several twists that I thoroughly enjoyed. I also want to say how very impressed I was with the artwork. The author worked with two illustrators while writing this story, and the three of them together created a perfect illustrated tale.
Nonfiction and Nonsense 