GENRE: Fiction/horror
SETTING: Maryland, USA
PURCHASE: link
READ FREE: link
MY GRADE: B
FROM PUBLISHER: Surely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and they were nice children -- didn't hold an adult captive.
But what Barbara didn't count on was the heady effect their new-found freedom would have on the children. Their wealthy parents were away in Europe, and in this rural area of Maryland, the next house was easily a quarter of a mile away. The power of adults was in their hands, and they were tempted by it. They tasted it and toyed with it -- their only aim was to test its limits. Each child was consumed by his own individual lust and caught up with the others in sadistic manipulation and passion, until finally, step by step, their grim game strips away the layers of childishness to reveal the vicious psyche, conceived in evil and educated in society's sophisticated violence, that lies always within civilized men.
More than a terrifying horror story, Let's Go Play At The Adams' is a compelling psychological exercise of brooding insights and deadly implications.
MY THOUGHTS: I can't think of much to say about this one. It left me feeling emotionless. I was after a print copy for years and finally got one in 2018 for almost $13 total. I have the cover shown, which is from 1993. I'm almost positive I learned of this on the now defunct IMDB forum years ago. While very disturbing, it wasn't as disturbing as I'd anticipated and I'm really let down. I found ten-year-old Cindy to be very annoying. Seventeen-year-old Dianne is quite disturbed but I just don't buy it. The ending wasn't what I was expecting either. The epilogue sucked majorly and is implausible and it kind of ruined the book.
Basically the point of this post is to let you know you can get on a wish list at Archive.org to read this and you can also read about the author here.
Edit- The book I'm currently reading, Paperbacks from Hell, dedicated a page to this novel. Read it here. Click on image to enlarge.
Edit 2: This came back into print 3/2020.
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