Review: Good title as it was
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
This book showed up with gay coming of age fiction.  It was not a story about a gay teen.  Now with that said - besides waiting for something like that to happen and being disappointed - the story was not that bad - my number of stars probably reflects that - it was not a 5 but maybe a 4 or some.  The idea was interesting - a mom with psychological issues whose husband ran off with a student from UW.  Set in Seattle - the descriptions of Seattle and the Northern West Coast was really nice.  The beach scene towards the end made me want to find that beach and even live in the girl-friend's house.  The friendship between the main character and the popular boy was why I thought maybe it would take a gay twist - but really they were friends and really not sure that in real life they would have been friends.  The main character's watching the neighbor at night was a bit odd - but he yearned to be popular - his crush on the girl at school got to be kind of borderline pathetic - more for the 3 stars.  I read the book more because of the descriptions of the environment more than for the story itself - at least - in the end - the main character - well I'll let you read it to find out what happened.