A review by lavoiture
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

3.0

I am still unsure how I feel about The Underneath . It was very imaginative and I read it very quickly, but the entire time I was reading it, I had mixed feelings about it. The writing style wasn't really for me, but I did like the picture the author painted of the swamp. I could vividly picture the characters, including the sad and evil Gar Face (am I the only one who felt sorry for him?. The smells and sounds of the swamp jumped off the page. There was just something I couldn't quite get into it. I think if I were a young adult, I guess the intended audience, I would have been crying. It's also a pretty violent and dark book. I'm just...not sure!