Review: Having Been An Outcast Myself
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2012
I have a weakness for the outcasts of our society, being one myself, and I write about them in my novelMoving On.  In Subculture, Charles Anthony Vilina takes a hard look at our culture's everlasting tendency to create outcasts, and then to blame them for all that goes wrong in our lives.  This book rises far above its genre.  It would be too easy to think this is just another teen angst coming of age book, or just another mystery - but it is too well written for that.  The characters are too rich and too real, and in the end, they will surprise you with their humanity.Marsha is the town outcast for no other reason than that she is different and has a mysterious past she chooses not to talk about.  She has been through a traumatic experience and a difficult childhood that has taught her strength of will, but not how to blend into this town full of strangers.  Even her family, her grandmother, is a stranger she never met until a few months ago.  When two of the town hero's vanish mysteriously, and then one of them is found murdered on the farm where she lives, Marsha is the obvious suspect.I especially enjoyed how Britta, the charactor I expected to be the most bitter, and the most shallow and self-serving becomes the most compassionate, forgiving, and generous of spirit character in the book - with the exception of Marsha.