Concerning & Potentially Concerning Content

While this book is meant to be “over-the-top” and a bit lighter in its approach, this is still a set of unfortunate content that should be considered. A married couple, characters you instantly don’t care for are constantly bickering and arguing. They are setup to represent the worldly disgruntled married couple. To add to this the narrator mentions that, “when a married couple argues it can go on for hours or days.” Their son is even worse and often shoots at birds with a slingshot. The main character is dishonest on a few occasions. Again, the narrator makes this worse by describing him as being like “the gunk at the bottom of the trash can”. In another over-the-top moment there are two child characters who work together to drive a taxi around town for their father (one steering, one on pedals). There are some pessimistic views peppered in the book, such as “parents don’t tell their children anything’ and vice versa. There is a brief mention of a statue of a woman made of plaster that is described as having no clothes on, but nothing further is described. Adults are often clueless. There is one potentially frightening scene where a woman is saved from drowning (caused by the villain).