A review by amberleighmaida
The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling

2.0

As a children’s book, I just couldn’t get behind this. The violence is one thing but on top of that there were drawings of violent acts from young children who submitted them for a competition. Horses being steered until bleeding, stray dogs being hit by rocks, hundreds of innocent people being gagged and murdered while their children are sent to an abusive orphanage that starves and beats them….I really don’t know what Rowling was thinking. Hope and the “happy ending” came in the last ten percent of the book and yet its still on top of HUNDREDS of graves of innocent people.