Review of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Review

Where does one start with Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You? It seems like the author couldn’t decide which plot points to develop and as such none of them came to a satisfying conclusion. All the more disappointing is that Someday had the potential to be so much better. The story starts out promising enough; the narrator, James Sveck, is a witty and relatable character in the vein of Holden Caulfield. But after the first few chapters, it felt as if Peter Cameron had gotten out his dartboard, covered it with randomly generated plot ideas and started throwing. Not a complete waste of my time, but a pretty jarring reminder of why I tend to avoid the Young Adult shelves.

5/10

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Added by spiegalr 1 year ago on 15 July 2008 02:03