The Children and the Wolves

3.5. This is a hell of a risky book! Wiggins, Orange, and Bounce have taken a child they've named Frog captive, and they're keeping her locked up in Orange's basement. She's been missing for weeks around town, and Bounce has convinced the two boys they can make money from her captivity by deceiving p......more

Unrelenting. Brutal. Sociopathic. Sad. Non-empathic. Told in 4 voices this story is of two boys, Wiggins & Orange, who under the steely direction of the highly self-opinionated Bounce, the lone female, kidnap 3 year-old Frog and plan other crimes. At 152 pages, Rapp's writing is spare but packs a wa......more

Unrestrained, unapologetic and delightfully uninhibited. Littered with numerous crude and hilarious throwaway lines, too, to have you chuckling for the audacity all through the unfortunate. "Gritty innocence" is how I think I described Adam's flavor somewhere previously, which is inescapably true for......more

I'll lead with this fun fact, because I'm 37 years old and watched wayyy too many '80s comedies on VHS - author Adam Rapp is the brother of actor Anthony Rapp, who was the lead kid from Adventures in Babysitting. I thought Anthony Rapp had pulled a "whatever happened to...?" disappearing act, bu......more

"We feed the Frog Chex cereal and Flintstones chewable vitamins with extra C. She's got a couch and a toilet and a sink and a mini refrigerator and two pillows and a coloring book and crayons and when her underwears get dirty I wash them in the washer-dryer unit. We got a thing of Tide and a thing o......more