librarianryan 's review for:

The Pepperstorm by Rafael Ordoñez
1.0
challenging tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

 This book has a giant flaw.  At first it seems innocent and cute, until you realize the mice are resorting to violence to get what they want.  Elephants are big and they like to look at the sky.  They do not pay attention to where they are walking.  Mice are little and constantly in fear of the elephants crushing them.  The story mentions that someone tried to talk to the elephants, but they were closed minded and didn’t listen.  So the mice retaliated by asking their cousins to help out by dropping pepper all over the elephants to make them sneeze and look down.  The mice are complaining that the elephants are bullies, but they really are not.  They are not intentionally trying to step on the mice.  However the mice purposely cause the elephants to be sick.  I think the author mislabeled who the bully was. Plus as I read this, I see so many issues that you would see in our news, groups of people mad about how things are going down, and wanting to do something like kick people out of the country, or threats to “take over” or even do harm to people.  This book goes entirely in the wrong direction.  It’s almost like a certain orange political figure telling their followers to “stop the steal” only in this case it is mice saying, hey those guys are bullies, just because they are big.  I really wanted to like this one, and I just can't. 

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