Reviews

Nowhere Fast by Kevin Waltman

lekoweko's review

3.0

The story of an ordinary teenager in an ordinary small town. Nothing I haven't seen before, but reading it as a teenager it really opened my eyes to some of things that I was already all too aware of. It made me realize that becoming numb to the recklessness and listlessness of adolescence is at once thrilling and frightening.

amywriterrose's review

2.0

You were written nice, but finish the damn story!

You can read more about my thoughts on it here: https://amy-rosenfeldt.com/2020/04/03/nowhere-fast/

kaikamahine's review

3.0

That was not the book I was expecting when I started it. I was expecting a "young white male has a troublemaker best friend, an abusive father, and complains a lot about how there's nothing for him in his small town, and how his girlfriend won't put out, boo hoo hoo." And there's some of that -- the small town, the abusive father -- but the neat thing about Nowhere Fast is just how much RESPECT it has for its relationships. Nobody is two-dimensional. The best friend is just as complex as the narrator himself, nothing is easily fixed, and the one thing that doesn't change throughout the novel is just how much the narrator respects his girlfriend, what she does and doesn't want, and the fact they're the only interracial relationship in their town. I wasn't expecting that kind of progressiveness. Well done, book.