Reviews

No Way Out by Peggy Kern

kawaii_rose's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I enjoyed the story's moral, but the rushed ending left me unsatisfied. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use

clarissa21663's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

amdame1's review against another edition

3.0

A book in the Bluford High series. Harold is a high school freshman who lives with his grandmother. When she gets sick and they have medical bills to pay, things get tight financially – more than they already were. Then a social worker threatens to put Harold in a foster home. He is desperate and starts working for a local drug dealer. The violence and uncertainty frighten him, but he doesn't know where to go or what to do now.

raethereviewer's review against another edition

4.0

I liked the plot of the story and how realistic and relatable the struggles were, I just felt the ending was a bit too perfect and predictable.

Right off the bat, we can see that Harold's a shy kid with a good heart. He's just trying to find a way to help out his grandmother as best he can, but that search leads him to Londell. Londell offers him a job that he takes against better judgment, landing Harold in a mess he has to figure a way out of.