Review: An interesting contemporary story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
I was given a copy by the author in exchange for an honest review.Characters: The novel is in the point of view of Annie, a poor girl living in the Bronx. Other characters include Destiny, her best friend/lover, the Kims, a family that takes her in, and a mysterious figure that seems to be following Annie.Plot: Annie is a poor girl living in the Bronx trying to tackle each day of her grim life. She works at a soup kitchen run by a pair of nasty girls who are involved in some shady business. As Annie tries to get back at them for treating her badly, she runs into a guy that keeps turning up everywhere and claiming he's her "friend." Turns out he actually is a friend, but that part comes later. The story is interesting, especially the end, but the characters except for Annie and the Kims are not very developed. The events were realistic and they were strung together nicely.Writing: This is the area that brought my rating down. Pinkerton's sentence structure and vocabulary are great, but his grammar and punctuation needs some help. It was distracting and took away from the good things like the well-developed plot. Also, the setting is in the Bronx, but the characters all spoke and thought with British words and phrases. An editor or another set of eyes and a dictionary of American slang would have enhanced this unusual and entertaining story.