I really did enjoy this. There were parts of it that completely creeped me out and, I'm sure, must have caused me to look a bit crazed while reading aboard the CTA. There were parts that lagged a bit too, though, and I started waiting for something to happen. And the "exploding" grandma stigma didn't seem as worth lingering on to me as it apparently did to the entirety of Bad Munstreifel. Maybe that's because I heard Pia's side of things. Certainly children can be cruel, but I found I was a little tired of hearing about it after awhile. It didn't make me feel any extreme on either end -- I didn't find it hilariously absurd and I didn't feel a terrible amount of sympathy after a while either. Dunno. I liked Pia just fine, and of course, the creepy German folktales are the heart of this. It really did keep me wondering whether something supernatural was going to happen. I won't give that away though.

Straddles the line between YA and adult fiction, which is a place I like to be!