A review by staceynerdin
The Orphans of Race Point by Patry Francis

2.0

This was one of those bait-and-switch books for me. It started out so strong. Engaging characters, interesting setting and decent story line. But with the time jump (when it switches to Gus' story), the floor just fell out from under it. The pace slowed to a terrible crawl. The characters - especially Gus - were unbelievable, and I even laughed out loud at some of his amazingly stupid and unrealistic actions. I quit reading it. I just quit. So I guess I'm going to miss all the twists and surprises in the plot that other reviewers have mentioned. But I'm also going to save myself about 300 more pages of reading and a lot of aggravation.