Review: Super funny and amazing!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
Rachel Van Dyken’s The Wager is a terrifying novel about an old woman who preys on her unsuspecting grandchildren. This book is full of cougars masquerading as dance instructors, bomb scares, arranged marriages, vicious guard dogs, and people getting drugged. After reading this book I had nightmares for weeks involving squirrels and talking birds. So if you want a book that will scare the . . . Wait, I’ve just been told this book is supposed to be funny.Wait, what? Someone thinks this is funny? This book was terrifying! Did you not read the part about the grandmother buying a shock collar to scare her grandson into staying away from his fiancé before their wedding night?! Or what about the elderly stripper yoga? You’re telling me that’s not scary?I mean, yeah, okay it was kinda sweet when Jake started realizing he had feelings for Char. Well, and I guess the time they spent talking in their old tree house was a little cute. And yes Jake’s dance at the sex toy party was really hot. But you can’t tell me their grandma wasn’t scarier than Freddy Kruger on acid when she used that whistle. Really, who thought giving that woman a whistle or a microphone was a good idea?All right, I guess when you think about it The Wager wasn’t that scary. I mean I guess anaphylactic shock is a pretty funny. You know, when you don’t die. So I guess you could say, The Wager is a lighthearted comedy with a sweet love story. Huh, I wish I would have known this story was supposed to be funny last week. I wouldn’t have made my husband through away all the Benadryl. Oh well. ~reviewed by Meagan