Customer Reviews

That Was Then, This is Now        Rating:

I teach at a middle school and I was highly recommended this book by one of my students. Both of us had read another book by S.E. Hinton, "The Outsiders." Great reading! It did not take me long to finish this book and move onto two more books by S.E. Hinton, "Tex" and "Rumble Fish."

Not a bad read but this is where Hinton Jumped the Shark        Rating:

You have a lot of the recurring themes in her other stuff in this, young people faced with hardships, at a crossroads in their life and how they deal with change and loss of innocence. I am a fan of S.E Hintons books but this would have to be the one where she jumped the shark. There was a lot I liked about this book but this was the first one where I actually felt like I was reading a "teen" book. I really could have done without all the corny straight out of an old episode of Dragnet portrayals of hippies and drug use. Overall not a bad read but just not on the level of The Outsiders or Rumble Fish.

S.E. Hinton        Rating:

I read this novel a few times when I was in high school. Considering how few books I read back then this book is special. The depth of the characters was excellent. Susan Hinton made me want to read, and now I write my own novel's.

Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author