Scat

I read Scat aloud to my family, and couldn't wait for it to be over. This book is so out of touch. The author is constantly revealing himself as old and disconnected from youth in his ridiculous dialogue ("later dude"), and his treatment of female characters is ridiculous. Nick's dad is consistently referred to as Captain Gregory Waters, while his mom doesn't get a name-- only Nick's mom or Captain Gregory Waters's wife. Marta (the love interest?) is vapid ("like, omg, my shoes!"). After ~300 pages we still don't know what any of the characters look like. Way too many words without much substance. As the kids say these days, "hard pass."

If you like a good challenging and interesting book then you will like this book. there is a little bit of curse words and some gory things happen in the book but if you are nine or older it should be ok for you to read.

I started reading this book and got SOOOO bored. I abandoned it after 70 pages. I HATE THIS BOOK!

My 12-yr-old daughter is reading this for a book club and "loved" the first 1/4 of the book, but now she won't finish because it has "lots of bad words." I thought she was being overly dramatic because I hadn't read this when I previewed the reviews for it. BUT...the 3 or 4 pages prior to her bookmark that I read (about 1/2way in) contained a [email protected], smarta&&, and dumba&&. That means about 1 swear word per page! Yes, they're "mild," but completely unnecessary! Sure, the boy who threatens teachers is a rough kid, but young readers get that just from the descriptions of him; they don't need the adult dialogue. There is also the constant reference to middle schoolers having cell phones and other unnecessary consumer goods.