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Kindness for Weakness
by
Shawn Goodman (Goodreads Author)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Catcher in the Rye.
A fifteen-year-old boy from an abusive home desperately seeking his older brother's love and approval starts pushing drugs for him and suffers the consequences.
A fifteen-year-old boy from an abusive home desperately seeking his older brother's love and approval starts pushing drugs for him and suffers the consequences.
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
May 14th 2013
by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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FIRST IMPRESSION:
Pros : The start is so interesting. There's high tension, James (the MC) comes off as sweet and loveable, and you're going to want to know what happens next.
Cons : It's what I classify as a False Start, which is a dream, a flashback, a flash-forward, or anything like that. You know, that thing that's done to grab your attention and keep you reading when the real start isn't as intense. In this case, it's a flash-forward. The first ch...more
FIRST IMPRESSION:
Pros : The start is so interesting. There's high tension, James (the MC) comes off as sweet and loveable, and you're going to want to know what happens next.
Cons : It's what I classify as a False Start, which is a dream, a flashback, a flash-forward, or anything like that. You know, that thing that's done to grab your attention and keep you reading when the real start isn't as intense. In this case, it's a flash-forward. The first ch...more
You guys, I just recently gobbled up Kindness For Weakness by Shawn Goodman which really hit my intellectual sweet spots. I mean, I started this book the same day that I DNFed a contemporary book and basically read all of Kindness For Weakness in a single sitting – including about 88% of the book while I was on the exercise bike. Goodman’s book has a stellar main character and then actually made me think deeply about issues in our society AND made me want to read this classic Jack London book th...more
Scheduled for release in May, Shawn Goodman's "Kindness for Weakness" is a book that will grab your attention & should get a lot of attention later on in the year. The story revolves around James a teenager who comes from a broken home & who gets caught in an honest mistake set up by his older brother that lands him in the NY juvenile corrections institute. It is there that James grows up from being the boy he is into a much stronger character through the interactions with a wide variety...more
Tough One
Read in 2013,YA,Good for Dudes
Kindness for Weakness was an eARC I received through netgalley and one I thoroughly enjoyed. I blew through it quickly because it was one of those books that sucks you in right away, with a main character, James, who is completely real and sympathetic.
James has a mother who never should have been a mother: she is a drunk and lives with an abusive jerk who beats her and James both. He has an older brother, a poser-creep drug dealer who drags James into his...more
Read in 2013,YA,Good for Dudes
Kindness for Weakness was an eARC I received through netgalley and one I thoroughly enjoyed. I blew through it quickly because it was one of those books that sucks you in right away, with a main character, James, who is completely real and sympathetic.
James has a mother who never should have been a mother: she is a drunk and lives with an abusive jerk who beats her and James both. He has an older brother, a poser-creep drug dealer who drags James into his...more
Review originally posted at YA Love
Shawn Goodman’s sophomore release, Kindness for Weakness, made me feel an array of emotions: hope, grief, dismay, and more. I absolutely loved Something Like Hope, so when I featured Kindness for Weakness on Waiting on Wednesday, Shawn offered to send me an ARC of it. I had requested a copy via NetGalley, and hadn’t received a response yet, so I accepted his kind offer. Regardless of how I received a copy of this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait to...more
Shawn Goodman’s sophomore release, Kindness for Weakness, made me feel an array of emotions: hope, grief, dismay, and more. I absolutely loved Something Like Hope, so when I featured Kindness for Weakness on Waiting on Wednesday, Shawn offered to send me an ARC of it. I had requested a copy via NetGalley, and hadn’t received a response yet, so I accepted his kind offer. Regardless of how I received a copy of this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait to...more
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May 12, 2013
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Review first appeared on my blog: Book Addict 24-7
I received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
I don't even know where to start with Shawn Goodman's young adult contemporary novel Kindness for Weakness. This novel is so good, that I devoured it in one sitting.
I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.
Funny how I was wary of it at first--a teenager sent to prison because of his relentless need for approval from a less than stellar big brother? I honestly didn't know how this was going to...more
I received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
I don't even know where to start with Shawn Goodman's young adult contemporary novel Kindness for Weakness. This novel is so good, that I devoured it in one sitting.
I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.
Funny how I was wary of it at first--a teenager sent to prison because of his relentless need for approval from a less than stellar big brother? I honestly didn't know how this was going to...more
This is a young adult novel that I would say is squarely aimed at teenage boys. The story follows 15 year old James who has grown up in a broken home idolizing his older brother. When he naively gets involved with his brother's drug trade he winds up in a juvenile detention facility. Most of the action of the story takes place there where James has to try and learn to navigate between the other juvenile detainees and the less than friendly guards. Though fiction, the story is probably all too tr...more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Catcher in the Rye. Haven't read either but will be reading this.
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"... I smile inwardly, thinking that maybe there are such things as second chances."
There are, James, and I wish you would have realized sooner that strength isn't just a bodily measure. I wish you could have been the one to rise up against the tide of hate and fear. You should have gotten that second chance.
There are, James, and I wish you would have realized sooner that strength isn't just a bodily measure. I wish you could have been the one to rise up against the tide of hate and fear. You should have gotten that second chance.
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