A review by monicals
Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates

3.0

So weird. The writing style is annoying but effective. All the sentence fragments, parentheses, italics, etc. give the desired effect of making the story disjointed. Hannah is messed up and her whole "affair" is also messed up. I wanted to read this book because it was set in Detroit with a backdrop of the Oakland County child killings. That part didn't disappoint but I did wonder why some place names were slightly changed but most weren't. Really didn't care for the ambiguous ending though.