Review: Disturbing -- and not in a good way
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2012
I'm clearly not the target audience for this story.  As other reviews have noted, it isn't really a "crossover" story designed to appeal to adults and children.  The narrative is barebones, there is little wordplay or cleverness to entice the adult reader into enjoying this simple story.  The story itself is pretty repugnant.  A girl doesn't feed her rabbit and the rabbit goes on to grow to huge dimensions and eats her parents before the girl stabs it in the "butt," cuts her parents out, and they slaughter and eat the rabbit.Part of what made this story so unappealing to me was the muddled nature of the events taking place.  The rabbit bites fingers, the girl doesn't feed the rabbit for a couple of days, the rabbit complains that nobody loves him/her.  It was difficult to understand why the author was throwing so many disparate elements into such a short tale.  As a feeling person, my sympathy is with the rabbit who wasn't loved or fed.  Yet the author presents these acts as a matter of course.  I wouldn't want to share such a tale with a child.  The rabbit's end was so gory -- I can't imagine sharing this tale with a child who was young enough to still be interested in the simple style.