heather_g's review
2.0
interesting story of a young boy who moved with his dad to his dad's hometown. The boy meets some other kids, including a girl he likes and a boy who gets them all into trouble. The ending was pretty exciting, but a bit expected.
charshorrorcorner's review
4.0
Nothing Lasting is like The Body (aka the movie Stand By Me), but directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Yep, this was a good one!
As young Noah Berkley and his recently divorced dad move to his late grandfather's house, he tries to adjust to his new life. Without his mom living with them, without his grand-dad's support and often without his dad, who as a firefighter often works long shifts, Noah has a difficult time of it. When he meets his dad's "friend" Erin and her son Derek, his life is about to change for the worse. The only good thing he's got going is his pretty new schoolmate Jenny Sparrow, and Noah clings to the thought of her with all he's got. When Derek begins acting like a juvenile delinquent, Noah struggles between doing the right thing or losing Derek. If that was his only problem, Noah would be okay. However, it's not and you'll have to read the book to see what happens next.
Nothing Lasting is more of a YA novel with horrific accents rather than an all-out horror story. YA is normally not my thing, but this book captured and kept my attention. I did find the pacing to be a little slow at times, (teen angst and all that), and though I never felt like putting the book down, I did deduct a star for that. I can't say much else without spoiling anything, but I loved the build up of tension as things began to go south between Derek and Noah. I felt that they were both well developed characters and as the story unfolded, I felt the same way about most of the rest of the cast as well. I cared about them and found it difficult towards the end to deal with my feelings as the truth became clear. To me, that's the sign of a good, (perhaps a great?), novel.
Recommended to fans of coming of age novels intertwined with healthy doses of horror!
You can buy your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Lasting-Glen-Krisch-ebook/dp/B00PYUSA6M/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
*I am an online *friend* of the author and he provided a free e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
As young Noah Berkley and his recently divorced dad move to his late grandfather's house, he tries to adjust to his new life. Without his mom living with them, without his grand-dad's support and often without his dad, who as a firefighter often works long shifts, Noah has a difficult time of it. When he meets his dad's "friend" Erin and her son Derek, his life is about to change for the worse. The only good thing he's got going is his pretty new schoolmate Jenny Sparrow, and Noah clings to the thought of her with all he's got. When Derek begins acting like a juvenile delinquent, Noah struggles between doing the right thing or losing Derek. If that was his only problem, Noah would be okay. However, it's not and you'll have to read the book to see what happens next.
Nothing Lasting is more of a YA novel with horrific accents rather than an all-out horror story. YA is normally not my thing, but this book captured and kept my attention. I did find the pacing to be a little slow at times, (teen angst and all that), and though I never felt like putting the book down, I did deduct a star for that. I can't say much else without spoiling anything, but I loved the build up of tension as things began to go south between Derek and Noah. I felt that they were both well developed characters and as the story unfolded, I felt the same way about most of the rest of the cast as well. I cared about them and found it difficult towards the end to deal with my feelings as the truth became clear. To me, that's the sign of a good, (perhaps a great?), novel.
Recommended to fans of coming of age novels intertwined with healthy doses of horror!
You can buy your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Lasting-Glen-Krisch-ebook/dp/B00PYUSA6M/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
*I am an online *friend* of the author and he provided a free e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
ctgt's review
4.0
I am online friends with the author and he provided a free copy of this book.
I suppose you could call this a coming of age story but it's not one of those where the past is looked back on fondly.
Noah Berkley is burying his father. As most of us would, he begins to reminisce on his adolescence years. Back to a time when his parents had just split up, he and his father had moved to his father's hometown and Noah was just trying to keep it together. He forms a tenuous friendship with Derek, an older boy whose mother is dating Noah's father(and it seems they had a bit of a past) and embarks on a budding romance with Jenny, a free-spirited girl from school.
The story weaves through many twists in Noah's life. Getting in to trouble with Derek, becoming closer with Jenny all while trying to figure out exactly what happened between his parents. Throw in an old crime from the past and you have a story that takes many unexpected turns all the way to the surprise ending.
8/10
I suppose you could call this a coming of age story but it's not one of those where the past is looked back on fondly.
Noah Berkley is burying his father. As most of us would, he begins to reminisce on his adolescence years. Back to a time when his parents had just split up, he and his father had moved to his father's hometown and Noah was just trying to keep it together. He forms a tenuous friendship with Derek, an older boy whose mother is dating Noah's father(and it seems they had a bit of a past) and embarks on a budding romance with Jenny, a free-spirited girl from school.
The story weaves through many twists in Noah's life. Getting in to trouble with Derek, becoming closer with Jenny all while trying to figure out exactly what happened between his parents. Throw in an old crime from the past and you have a story that takes many unexpected turns all the way to the surprise ending.
8/10
waynewaynus's review
4.0
i really enjoyed this book, it has the right balance to keep you reading and thinking that anything is possible. The ending though is why it has only 4 stars and not 5. It is not the idea itself but the execution that spoils the book.
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