I was surprised by how much I liked this book.A boy saves his classmate from a violent attack and becomes the town hero.He is given all kinds recognition and rewards.This boy was someone who went about daily life mostly unnoticed but now every move he makes is front page news. So when he removes ...
Got in bed a little disappointed with myself for not having accomplished much on a Saturday and then I remembered, no wait! I went to Lobo's Nod and caught a serial killer with the help of Sheriff G. William Tanner! The eBook novella trend gives a slow reader like me a sense of accomplishment, an...
This was an almost frighteningly realistic view into the mind of a young archvillain-in-progress. Kyle is a super-smart, yet self-absorbed and misanthropic kid who likes to play pranks on people - mostly adults in authority - and is therefore very popular at school. However, when he's caught in a...
Before I start the more serious portion of this review, can we just take a minute to talk about voice? Barry Lyga rocks at voice. Even when I don't particularly like his characters or what they are doing/saying/thinking; even if I don't want to understand where they are coming from, I do empath...
When I started writing the books, I knew that the “present” of the story took place four years after the notorious Billy Dent had been arrested, tried, and convicted. Furthermore, I knew that Billy’s “career” stretched back twenty years, longer than his son had been alive. This meant that I had a...
She knew she’d been grounded for a good, long time, no matter what clever lies or stories she conjured for her parents. Once school started on Monday, it would be school, then home. Period. When play practice started for the spring musical, she would be allowed to attend rehearsals, but that was ...
There was none of the usual boisterous shouting and jibing in the halls before homeroom; the buzz of conversation had been replaced with the occasional sound of a hiccupping sob. Jazz wondered how they would all feel if they knew that Ginny’s death—as devastating as it had been to them—was only o...
“Don’t go chasing—” She grabbed it before it could go any further. She’d chased the waterfall and gotten battered for it. “Hey, Connie.” Howie. Not Jazz. Had she really expected Jazz to call? “Howie, have you—” “Not on the ph...
Oh, Hell -- Take a Wild Guess For reasons I didn't understand then and still don't understand now, I laughed -- a pure, almost innocent, almost childlike laugh -- as I ejaculated inside Kiki Newman for the first time. We had spent most of the party together and alone. Not huddled in a corner for ...
Her CDs all suck, so I blast the radio instead, which is only a little bit better. I go to the mall. I park in the most inconvenient place I can find so that it's less likely anyone will be around to see me when I leave. When I get out of the car, I take off my scarf to wipe off the steering whee...
You'd think after so many years at the same bus stop with the same kids that I would have made some friends in the neighborhood. But you'd be wrong. When your mother won't let you invite anyone over to the house, it's tough to make friends. And when people rarely visit your house, when your mothe...
Khalid’s family came to the High Line often, so he was familiar with the area. The High Line itself didn’t seem to exist here. An old aboveground train path, it had been converted to a park in his own world. In this one, there was something elevated parallel to Tenth Avenue, but it was enclosed a...
Michelle and Rachel go into the bedroom and change into sweats. Zik and I just strip off our tux jackets and ties. We order junk from room service before they shut down for the night: hot wings, potato skins with artery-clogging cheese and bacon, fried mozzarella sticks wi...
you might also enjoy these other books by Barry Lyga: The I Hunt Killers Series Jazz is the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, "Take Your Son to Work Day" was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could--from the criminals' point of ...
Today is the big day. Today I'll make my stand. I never cared about ribbons or any of that before, but now it's like the biggest thing in my life. It's like my mission. I'll state my case in a way that people will understand. Once I point things out to them, once I show them how I'm thinking, the...