Horror --- 4 1/2 stars
Almost 7 year-old Wen is busy catching grasshoppers in the yard while her two daddies relax on the other side of the isolated lake cabin they have rented for the weekend. When Leonard appears on the road and joins Wen, she knows she is not supposed to talk to strangers, but he is very good at grasshopper catching, so she decides to give him a chance. When Leonard's friends join him and insist on talking to her two daddies, Wen begins to think she's made a big mistake. Now Wen's family is suddenly forced to deal with people who are so convinced they are right that they expect her daddies to perform a horrible act to prove their cause. -----
This book got to me. I found the antagonists truly frightening, and the victims wholly sympathetic, and the entire situation too easy to imagine as reality. Maybe it was my mood at the time, but this was one of the most disturbing books I've read in a very long time. Sad, and thought provoking, with an ever decreasing chance of a good outcome.
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