Review: Emotion, tragedy,dreams
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2014
This is that book that I was really, really depressed about finishing.  I'll be rereading this over and over again, definitely.  We follow Ray, growing through that age where you realize that you're going to live, in a few years you're in control, and then the future awaits.  He already knows what he wants to do (become a writer), when he gets mixed up with some shady people and life changing situations.  The story deals with many coming of age themes or "approaching teenhood" subjects, such as peer pressure (and not just being pressured into like having a cigarette), sex (which is so easy to have now), that yucky period of "self discovery", fights, emotional scarring, and many other different concepts.I love the description the author puts into his dialogue and narration, because I really feel like I'm in the book watching as 3rd party.  I enjoyed all the action scenes in the book as well, for the same reasons and because they were realistic and intense.  Reading through them, I realize that by the end I'm like straining every muscle in my body hoping that Ray gets through!  Hopefully there will be another book soon???  I'll definitely be buying it and reading it through on the first night.