Review: The Cake House

The Cake House by Latifah Salom
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

So much happened here that I don't even know where to start.

Let's see, we've got:

A very loose Hamlet retelling with a 14 year old girl as the Prince of Denmark.

A 14 year old girl that sees her father's ghost; partially hates/needs her mother who is equal parts whacked out of her mind or too deep into her melancholy to be anything other than a ghost; hates/fears her stepfather but spends a lot of time with him for a plot point that goes nowhere; and creepily stalks and has sex with her step-brother who might be a violent drug-dealer.

Ponzi-schemes, drug addictions, parental abandonment.

A lot of things that went absolutely nowhere.

I was entertained though. You know, when I wasn't creeped out by this 14 year old girl emotionally blackmailing her stepbrother that she was weirdly obsessed with.

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