20 Years Later

20 Years Later has been one of those books that has been sitting on my Nook (then Kindle) for years. I picked it up as a free read when I purchased my Nook, and then it just sat there. I don't think I do any favors by doing this to these poor authors, but I guess I can blame it on my magpie brain.

This is a YA novel. That is the first thing that should be addressed in the review. I don't hold YA books to a different standard when reviewing, in my opinion good is good no matter who it is written for. That being said I do make allowances for writing style and vocabulary. This is a good YA book, not great but good. The environment and social structure of this world is well established, and the characters are believable. Some of the reviews have complained that the characters act younger than their age, and in some cases this is true, especially the main characters, Zane. This is to be expected. The author established right from the beginning the Zane has been kept sheltered by his mom. I really did not understand why she did this, it does seem an incredibly stupid to keep her son so very ignorant about the way of the streets.

This is the first book in what was obviously intended to be a series, but it was written in 2011, and there has not been a second book, so this may end up being a dropped series, it is too bad because the series has potential.