Two teenage boys Mark and Bryon have been living together
for a very long time due to the loss of Mark's parents. Mark and Bryon have
different personalities. Bryon likes to date different women containing many
different kinds of characteristics such as Cathy while Mark isn't into
encountering intimate relationships but although he really likes to try living
the wild life of his own. During a typical day or evening, they would go to a
bar so they could play a regular game of pool and they would always talk to
Charlie about the Coke loans they have (mostly Bryon though). It is true that
these two boys have been living their lives together as if they are really
brothers but things in life seem to change. Mark is involved in a case where he
has to sell drugs in order to help his family earn money and Bryon is the only
one that knows which leads to him making a very hard decision. Should Bryon rat
out Mark to the police or be kept quiet and let the proper authorities find out
themselves?
When I first read this book, I thought it was a pretty
decent one. It wasn't that bad taking a look at and I thought the cover looked
pretty cool. In my opinion, I am in a neutral state in this book. It wasn't too
good or too bad. Just okay itself. I have also read the sequel to this novel
which is "The Outsiders" and I thought that it was a better novel
than this. I'm not necessarily saying that this is actually a very bad thing to
read though. Although in some of the scenes the book really got me good. I
think that anyone can read this book even though there is some foul language so
maybe I would not recommend a preteen reading this, such as an 11 or 12 year
old. And there is a movie adaptation so maybe I would recommend a teen that is
around 14 or 15 years old watching the film because the film tends to have more
violence rather than foul language.
Reviewed by Hannah R., Grade 10
Downtown Central Library
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