Review: Somewhere between an After School Special and a Lifetime movie, there is Riley's Pond...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
To start off with, this book is classified as New Adult, however you can summize from just reading the first page, that it is clearly Young Adult. The plot sounded very intriguing though, so  I decided to download it and give it a try anyway.  Even though I am in my 30's, I've read some really amazing YA books that could be enjoyed by readers of all ages, however this is not one of those books.  This book is really geared towards a much, much younger reader.Even with that said, I think this book is lacking something that will appeal to today's mainstream teenagers, and that is authenticity.  The dialogue and some of the storyline is really dated, corny, and far fetched.  It reminded me exactly of one of those After School Specials they used to show on TV when I was in junior high school, you know the ones where they got teen actors from popular sitcoms of the 80's and 90's to do some really bad acting as a way of preventing teen pregnancy, drug use, drunk driving, etc.Overall, I think the author has a decent style of writing and the cover art was beautiful, but I did not care for the book.