Review: Never run away from home
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
Rain is a runaway who doesn't know the cost of a stamp, nor that rape is rife in alleys in the city. She's lived such a sheltered, pampered life that she sees her parents imposing fairly normal rules on her as unbearably restrictive and meaning that they no longer love her.Goth has constructed a spoilt teenage girl who I can't stand. Oh, she's a very well-written character - and her story has an ending that seemed inevitable to me at the beginning. Goth did set up the rest of the story well enough that I wondered if it would play out as I expected, though...and that was nicely done. For characterisation and story, I'd give the author four stars.Her drug-induced hallucinations are beautifully described.What I found jarring in this story is its need for an editor and a proofreader, as some sections are unnecessarily repetitive and some word use and sentence structure simply doesn't make sense. I'll give an example of two such spots in the book:"I will keep that under all my possible consideration," Vin said, obviously condescending his employee.andThe memory played on, but she stayed solid, quaint with merging into the quiet loneliness of her room.Once minor issues like this are fixed, I can easily recommend this as clean, teen fiction.