A review by katiessocool
Blue Is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.0

Honestly this really only deserves 2, 2.5 stars at best but I'm being nice because I liked the idea. What I didn't like was the unrealistic interactions, the predictability and the fact that the whole plot leads to the last three chapters and the action goes down in 3 pages. Instead of being able to read he events as they happened we get an explanation. Plus there is absolutely no way the trial would have ended with involuntary manslaughter and 5 years in juvenile detention for mentally unstable boys. There was an actual murder! A life taken. Real life would have had much more experience consequences. I get that it's a fictional novel but still. That was too unbelievable and just plain irritating. I also understand that this was written in 2003 but come on, the interactions were so cheesy, the dialogue and relationships hard to believe and it was just so... corny? That's the best word I can think of. I'm disappointed because this story had so much potential and it just dropped that ball.