Review: Not just for YA readers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2012
I might be the only person in the world who hasn't read the Twilight novels, and I never could understand why adults would flock to YA fiction. But after reading Sean and David's other series, Yesterday's Gone, I decided to give this a try.It reminded me of some of the great YA books I read as a girl around 1980, though I don't think they were called YA then and they certainly didn't contain supernatural forces. But what I like about those books and the start of this series is that they show kids who feel like outcasts (and don't they all, in some way or another?) an extreme case of being an outcast and getting through it. You don't have to hear voices to be bullied or made fun of, and I think every kid alive has issues with parental authority at some stage.I didn't enjoy it as much as Yesterday's Gone because it is not aimed at my demographic, but I did enjoy it and would read the entire series. One thing that really impressed me was how two men were able to portray a teenage girl's feelings so well and have such insight into the way people interact. I would recommend this novel to my teenage nieces.