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The Floods #1: Good Neighbors

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If you mixed the Munsters with the Addams family, the end result might be the Floods family. They aren't your typical neighbors. For one, they eat bugs and eyes - all kinds of eyes, frog's especially. They are a family of wizards and witches and the neighborhood is afraid of them. In reality, they are actually kind.

Now meet the Dents. They are the new family who moved in. Although they look normal, compared to the Floods, the Dent are horrible neighbors. Now the Floods will have to figure out a way to get rid of the Dents once and for all.

The book is cool, but in a gross way. I plan to continue on reading this series. The next book is The Floods #2: School Plot.

If you truly like Harry Potter then the only thing this book might have in common is that Hogwarts might can use it to burn for fuel! Truly! I can't believe this book was mentioned in the same sentence as Harry Potter. The footnotes are obviously a flashback of the author & his twisted sense of what he thinks makes the world go round.

I mean for real, it mentions a child who is repeatedly slapped by his mother in a store so he will scream and divert attention so his mother can then steal cigarrettes while the child is screaming. Then the footnotes blame this incident on the mother being hit & abused as a child and makes the point that if you were abused as a child you'll abuse your own children and THAT IS NOT TRUE!

There are more twisted ideas & opinions of this author pulled out throughout this book so it's not really a good read at all. According to this tale there are 2 ways to make babies and I'd rather my children learn that from me and not this style of sick prose.

It's not really written in story form either and it's more a they were, they did, it was , and I don't think I have ever came across such illwritten literature targeted to a young audience.

Seemed to be a clever premise at the outset until - a page or two in - I realized the book is a thinly veiled ripoff of the Addams Family, the Munsters, with a bit of Harry Potter thrown in for good measure. The author's over-the-top "humor" (it's not even funny) and his relentlessly trying to outdo himself with the gross factor (i.e., use of cockroaches, the foods the Floods eat, etc.) caused many eye-roll moments when reading. The Dent family characters are extreme versions of the Dursleys, but one can't develop any interest in them, or even rise to the occasion of despising them, as the characterizations are so underdeveloped yet overly cliche. Also, when the Dents get their just deserts, I didn't privately cackle with satisfaction and glee ... I had more of a "puh-leeze" response.

The author's trying too hard to be original and out there. Don't waste your time with this book. I can't assign zero stars to this review.