100 Pages A Day...Stephanie's Book Reviews

Lacy Dawn is a pre-teen girl who lives in an Appalachian community called The Hollow.  Not many people escape The Hollow, but Lacy Dawn is smart.  With the help of her un-Earthly friend, DotCom, Lacy has been tutored and her parents have been changed from an alcoholic who likes to use the switch and a down on her luck housewife to loving, intelligent parents who will help her with her mission in life.  DotCom is not just helping Lacy Dawn to nice; he needs Lacy Dawn to save his home planet, Shptiludrp and her world.  With Lacy Dawn’s new found intelligence and her new and improved team, Lacy Dawn will be able to save Shptiludrp and Earth with the most extraordinary of means.

This book has a little bit of everything in it and I really didn’t know what I was getting into.  The beginning threw me for a few loops, with child abuse, mental health issues and sexual abuse, this story that is labeled as an adult fairy tale is most definitely for adults.  There is definitely a lot of strangeness in this book, but all of that led to wonderful insights and even better characters.  Lacy Dawn is irresistibly intriguing, I love her acceptance, heart, willingness to take on challenges and honesty.  Her growing relationship with DotCom was both fascinating and sweet.  DotCom’s transformation was probably the best part of this story for me, as he changes to a ‘real boy,’ the emotions and new sensations that DotCom was feeling as a human were hilarious.  The story really picked up for me when Lacy Dawn received her mission on Shptiludrp, an exciting and zany planet whose only hope is a dysfunctional family, their dog and an android who is turning into a man.

This book was received for free in return for an honest review.