A review by ryanpfw
Tales From Foster High by John Goode

4.0

I’m catching up on a number of reviews from the last couple of weeks. This one was solid. The series was written years ago, and three short novels were combined into this revised edition. I read the first third of this last year and did a reread here from the revised edition. There were things that didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me in the first reading that were clarified in the final two thirds, so I appreciated that. Some characterization was a little fuzzy. Kyle’s mom is described as borderline abusive and sort of snaps out of that fairly easily. All in all, the awful characters made me see red, which is the way it should work, and there was enough “you’re one of us” moments to keep things hopeful. I’ll be reading more.