Review: For Adults? No. Teens. Yes
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
Alright, as always let’s get the boring stuff out of the way…the writing was good. I spotted no errors; everything was presented to us clearer than a sunny day. So, if anybody else is complaining about grammar they’re just being overly picky.As for the plot, Rain runs away, joins a gang and even though she stressed once that she didn’t want to join a gang…she ends up getting pretty deep into the lifestyle…and I mean very deep. I think the biggest challenge for this story will be finding the right audience; to me honestly, it was a young adult novel but with cuss words and drugs…aka nothing foreign to the young adults of today.As a book for adults, I don’t think it would work. For experienced adult readers or TV viewers, we’ve seen this plot before in gangster films, Lifetime movies or novels. That’s why I feel it has to be aimed at readers just entering the world of storytelling between the ages of 14-18.Yes, I know the adult content will probably have parents in an uproar, but Rain’s story is very true to reality for a lot of teenagers who run away and get into trouble. Overall, it was a quick read and nothing made me want to claw my eyes out.