Review: The worst birthday ever
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2013
Michael, a bored, middle-class suburbanite is looking for a seventeenth birthday thrill with a bit of underage drinking. He gets far more than he bargains for in this dark, seamy novel. Even though the explicit sex bothered me, the realism in the writing and the knowledge that, although this was a novel, the real thing was happening in the real world in a layer of society I never see, bothered me much more.I was pleased that the author gave the book a satisfying conclusion with just enough loose ends to make me curious about the sequel, Paying the Piper. BTW, I liked the sequel even better.