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A review by samanthampg
The Problim Children by Natalie Lloyd
3.0
This book was cute! I loved how the Problim family were all so unique both within their own world and within our world! I loved the atmosphere of the story, the family bonds and the magical realism! I think this book a great for any middle grade readers looking for a mystery that isn’t scary but still interesting!
I wasn’t a huge fan of the ending, I know there is a second book but I feel like the first book didn’t have a whole lot going on and maybe the two could be combined? But I haven’t read the second so who am I to say?
One thing is that I wish we had more points of view, I would have loved to read from Mona’s perspective. It would’ve been nice to see more of Sundae and Alex as well.
SPOILERS:
One thing that really plagued me the whole novel was that people kept referring to six problim children when their whole thing is that there are seven of them, each born on a different day of the week. Each time their enemy said there were six Problim children, Frida would say “seven”.
Im under the opinion that Frida may be a ghost but only the other children can see her? Or something along those lines. She’s known to be stealthy and she’s always the one that speaks out when it’s mentioned there are six Problims AND I can’t remember her interacting with the towns people (but I could be wrong) so that’s my theory.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the ending, I know there is a second book but I feel like the first book didn’t have a whole lot going on and maybe the two could be combined? But I haven’t read the second so who am I to say?
One thing is that I wish we had more points of view, I would have loved to read from Mona’s perspective. It would’ve been nice to see more of Sundae and Alex as well.
SPOILERS:
One thing that really plagued me the whole novel was that people kept referring to six problim children when their whole thing is that there are seven of them, each born on a different day of the week. Each time their enemy said there were six Problim children, Frida would say “seven”.
Im under the opinion that Frida may be a ghost but only the other children can see her? Or something along those lines. She’s known to be stealthy and she’s always the one that speaks out when it’s mentioned there are six Problims AND I can’t remember her interacting with the towns people (but I could be wrong) so that’s my theory.