Review of 'Slice' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I’ll get right to the point here: this book is great. It is genuinely funny and charming, the main character – sixteen-year-old Darcy – is a boy whose brain just can’t keep up with his mouth.
The title is exactly what the book is: snippets and little segments from Darcy’s life. Somehow, it works flawlessly and you feel like you have a real sense of who this boy is as a person. His family is great. There is little angst and you just get a sense of relaxed friendliness from this novel.
I finished this book in a few hours; that’s a testament more to its easygoing writing than my speed reading skills. It was fun to read and I just didn’t want to put it down.
It’s not emotionally impacting. It’s not a dark, intense look at a teenage boy. But sometimes you don’t want that. You want a …
I’ll get right to the point here: this book is great. It is genuinely funny and charming, the main character – sixteen-year-old Darcy – is a boy whose brain just can’t keep up with his mouth.
The title is exactly what the book is: snippets and little segments from Darcy’s life. Somehow, it works flawlessly and you feel like you have a real sense of who this boy is as a person. His family is great. There is little angst and you just get a sense of relaxed friendliness from this novel.
I finished this book in a few hours; that’s a testament more to its easygoing writing than my speed reading skills. It was fun to read and I just didn’t want to put it down.
It’s not emotionally impacting. It’s not a dark, intense look at a teenage boy. But sometimes you don’t want that. You want a cool kid who has a lot of fun with life, and you want to be a part of that for a short while. And when you want that, just pick up Slice: juicy moments from my impossible life. You’ll laugh, you’ll shake your head, you might even ‘whoop’, but you certainly won’t feel like crying.