Review: Welcome to my "to watch" list!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
At 176 pages, I demolished this book in about three or four hours.  Kurth draws you in and keeps you strapped in for the ride.  Valen’s world is dangerous and feels legit.  You can tell the author spent a lot of time researching or talking to people who have lived in or seen this environment.  Maybe even lived it herself.  We’ve seen many movies and books out there where the “good” little girl moves into a bad neighborhood or ends up going to a bad school and changes because she falls in love with a boy.  Charlie doesn’t change all that much and her decisions and actions made me like her and hate her at times.  That’s a very refreshing change and very real.  Kurth uses that realness with all her characters and situations.  Ultimately it makes for a great read.  There is some strong language but considering the content, that’s to be expected and you are warned in the book’s description.  If someone asked me to recommend a good weekend read, I’d tell them On the Right Side of a Line without hesitation.  I look forward to checking out the rest of Shandy’s books!  Welcome to my “to watch” list!Thanks to Shandy Kurth for the review copy.  It in no way influenced my review.