Juan Lopez 2nd period
English 4 1-16-2008
The Hippie House Murder Mystery
Written by Katherine Holubitsky the hippie house has to be the slowest paced book ever. Perhaps judging the book by its cover is not such a good idea. Appealing to some readers as a story with hippies in it this book has none and contains hardly any references to the parties that go on at the house. If the reader was given more information about the people that visited the hippie house maybe we wouldn’t have to fill in the blanks and be guessing the book as we read it. In one instant the narrator goes to the hippie house while her brothers band is over there and she sees these two creepy guys outside smoking they give her a scary look then she leaves. We know that someone that knew about the hippie house must have committed the murder but not much is known about the people that were there during the summer.
Early in the book we meet up with the narrator who has a passion for sewing. It’s fair to say that she might as well be self-centered, well at least that’s how I see her being portrayed in the novel. You will see countless moments where the narrator trails off into other things such as her sewing project of just her views on life. Walking down the street the narrator will go on and on about how dangerous and unsafe the streets are and how she so carelessly could have got kidnapped while walking by herself. The murder at the hippie house would be the turning point of the novel, not that it gets any better but still a turning point. Now more than ever everything is scrambled all over the place. Expecting further details in regards to the murder that occurred would be a bad choice because not very many are given. Solving the murder as the reader can be done if you are to pick up on the little information that is given to us throughout the novel by the narrator. The characters do not interact as much as you would think someone would after finding out that there is a dead girl in a cabin in the forest that is near your house.
Everything in the novel is very predictable. Put the book down if you want to save yourself from a disappointing story about a murder, which takes place in a cabin. The writer has no foreshadowing in the novel but with the slow pace of the book you can guess your way into a boring conversation of a self-centered Canadian girl whose only purpose in the book is to sew and nothing else. So in my opinion the novel was wretched.
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