Review: Raw & Visceral
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2012
Fresco grabbed me at the throat from when I first started reading it. It is a YA dystopian that is so much more than just a dystopian. Patti Larsen has veered away from the cookie cutter dystopian genre and given the reader a story that is raw, visceral and haunting. Fresco is a teen jock like any other but his family is fractured even though the fractures are covered with a spiral of lies and illusions. These fractures are torn asunder when the dark secret of his older brother's disappearance is brought to light. Fresco is then spiraled into a world where nothing makes sense, where everything he thought was true is a lie and where the lies become the truth. The story is dark but true to the subject. Fresco needs to figure out this new reality before it implodes around him and drags him down with it. The first book in a series that will not be soon forgotten.