Hoot

Carl Hiaasen

"I wanted to read Hoot because I've read a lot of other books by the author and I was interested to see how he would write a children's book or a teen novel. The book is about a group of children in Florida that work to save basically an abandoned lot from being plowed over because there's a group of owls living there.

I think it was pretty successful in switching style and topic to a younger audience. He still had really interesting characters that you wouldn't normally see in a children's book, I think, like, they had kind of an edge to them. He writes a lot of kind of crime-drama novels, so there were definitely a couple characters that had that kind of criminal edge to them, but they were still children, so it was interesting to see.

I think it would be good for both adults and children, anyone that's looking for kind of the normal feel-good story line but with a different plot to it, with more of an edge to it, I guess you could say.

I would give this book probably three stars out of five, because again, it is a children's book, so it's not - it doesn't really appeal to my age group. But it was still a fun, quick read."

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