Confession: the author had me as soon as I read the title. While Indigo spells his last name differently than mine — McCloud versus McLeod — our last names are the same. So I had to learn all about his horrible sisters!
Description
Indigo McCloud’s sister Peaches is every adult's favourite child: pretty, golden-haired, polite and charming. But the children of Blunt know better: Peaches and her three sisters are a gang of bullies who will stop at nothing to get their way.
This is the story of Indigo’s battle to stop his sisters. Leaping across the rooftops of Blunt, he tries to keep one step ahead of their wicked schemes –but he has to tangle with 437 hungry geese, an avalanche of toilets, curry farts, bungling policemen, vicious eels, a pig in a witch's hat, a three legged spider with a toilet brush and a dangerous villain in odd socks …
What I Thought
This book is HYSTERICAL. And sooooo dark.
The story begins with the sisters terrorizing a neighbour children who is unwilling to do their bidding.
Her punishment by the sisters is cruel, but also funny, a theme repeated again and again in the story.
But Indigo's had enough.
And when new neighbour Mandy Tripe and her family are terrorized by his sisters, he's had enough.
Cue an elaborate revenge plot where Peaches and her sisters get their comeuppance and Indigo and the neighbourhood children finally find peace.
Filled with cheeky humour and some very gross experiences, kids are going to lap this book up!
John Hearne has written a book worthy of the Roald Dahl canon.
