Review: Enjoyable but redundant
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
Lost Boy is the companion piece to The Lonely. It is for all intents and purposes the exact same story, only from Eli's point of view. It was enjoyable and Eli is basically a likable character. In both The Lonely and Lost Boy I found his distaste of urban lingo and texting abbreviations to be strangely endearing. For some reason I found I actually liked Em/Sarah more seeing her through his eyes.Despite that the 2 stories are almost identical, I would recommend reading The Lonely first. I think I would have been confused had I started with Lost Boy and Lost Boy did answer some questions left over from The Lonely. SPOILER...so thank you for clarifying the paddling the feet. Apparently it is "a thing" but also had relevance to the storyline. END SPOILER.Lost Boy had very little original story, outside of an epilogue which extends beyond what was included in The Lonely. My preference would have been to have the 2 books combined in to 1 with chapters alternating between Em/Sarah and Eli's point of view; and that may have cut down on some of the redundancy between the 2 books.While the premise of both books is at it's heart fairly dark; the stories themselves I thought were actually very sweet and sort of heartwarming.