Kit has taken after her mom as a contract killer, with a mail drop box in a restaurant bathroom where people who want to do away with someone leave her letters that start out: “Dear Killer.” She lives with her beautiful mom (or “mum” as they say across the pond) and her clueless as to what his wife and daughter do in their spare time dad. Kit Ward attends a posh prep school in London. I decided that this was a stretch, that most readers never carry their fantasies into fruition. I was worried that impressionable young readers would use “Dear Killer” as a model for their own killings. In addition, she has the distinction of being named a California Arts Scholar and has been awarded the California Governor’s Medallion for artistically talented youth. According to the handout from the publisher “She was one of fifty finalists out of 5,000 entries in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest and has attended the invitational Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. When I started to read Katherine Ewell’s “Dear Killer” (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harper/Collins, 368 pages, $17.99) I was conducting an internal debate on whether or not to review it.Īfter all, the book is aimed at young readers and was written when Ewell was only seventeen (she’s nineteen now).
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