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A review by i_will_papercut_a_bish
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
4.0
If you read this as a child, it's a terrifying novel about cat possession.
If you read it as an adult, it's a psychological thriller about a lonely, truly disturbed girl who escalates in destructive/abusive behavior and projects in a truly spectacular way onto a stray kitten she's fostering. There's no magic, just a novelized version of that one disturbing little girl in the case study on YouTube.
{spoiler} I'm relieved she didn't murder the poor damned cat.
Either way, bizarre. I'm still slightly unsettled. Which is usually a nice thing in a book, but the more realistic twisted side (plus the targeted age) makes me hesitate to pass it on.
If you read it as an adult, it's a psychological thriller about a lonely, truly disturbed girl who escalates in destructive/abusive behavior and projects in a truly spectacular way onto a stray kitten she's fostering. There's no magic, just a novelized version of that one disturbing little girl in the case study on YouTube.
{spoiler} I'm relieved she didn't murder the poor damned cat.
Either way, bizarre. I'm still slightly unsettled. Which is usually a nice thing in a book, but the more realistic twisted side (plus the targeted age) makes me hesitate to pass it on.