I don't, as a general rule, read books like this. I don't like what seems to be called literary fiction, books where the focus is almost entirely on the characters and there's...well, there's plot, but it's mostly there to serve the character's journey of discovery or whatever you want to call it.

My life involves a lot of sitting around and thinking, and a plot with no clear cut villians or endings. I don't want the same out of my escapism.

I picked this book up because it was tagged as hockey fiction on Amazon and I found it easily at the library. I'm just getting into hockey fiction, I was hoping it would center a little more on the game, but it didn't.

All that said, I liked this book, almost entirely on the strength of the main character. Bobby Bonaduce is incredibly likable and I couldn't help rooting for him, even when he did things that I didn't agree with. The supporting characters are all wonderfully drawn and fleshed out too, three dimensional. There are no bad guys here, just people dealing with life.

The ending isn't epic, or especially climactic, but it's real. Not what I usually pick up, but I'm glad I got to know these characters.