Review: YA for all ages
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
I'm not typically a YA reader, but I thoroughly enjoyed Spades! I'm the first to admit I'll try a book if it's free and I did get it during the free period on Amazon. I also think if a writer is putting a book out there for free we owe it to the author to leave a review especially if the book was enjoyable. So here is my review of Spades.There was nothing juvenile about the characters which is what normally turns me off to books in this age range. By juvenile I mean that weren't silly or stupid. They were smart, but still vulnerable. I related to these characters because they were the sort of young people that I knew when I was a young person. The author created a beautiful balance which is what people in this age range need to find. The one critique I have about a lot of YA books is that the authors don't remember what it was like to be that age. Either Evans is still very young, or she has a good feel for being that age. The characters were by no means adults in youthful bodies, nor were they children in adult bodies.The story was engaging and I'm looking forward to the follow up (I'm guessing there is a follow up?).