Review: Huh?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2012
With these reviews, I thought that I would find a great story. Instead I found great writing (hence the two stars I gave) but no story that I could discern. It felt as if the author wanted to write a story, tried to write a story, and started some interesting narrative threads...but kept getting lost in description.I will say that the author does a good job of creating a sense of place. I could easily see the protagonist's surroundings. The author also did a great job of conveying our hero's mood - at least until he spoke. I'm by no means a prude, but by the time I was a quarter of the way through the book, I wished for someone to teach him another word besides F***. If there's a point, by all means, use the word. There was no point that I can see - it didn't create a mood, it didn't shock, it didn't do anything but fill up Every. Conversation. In. The. Book.Maybe I'm not this author's target group, because I'm a little beyond teenager angst, but I'm pretty sure my teenager wouldn't finish this book, either. I didn't care about the hero, didn't care about his missing girlfriend, and didn't care for the confusing and disjointed flashbacks(I think they were flashbacks). This book may have ended up being a great story, but the first half, at least, wasn't worth my time.