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A review by aimiller
Venice Beach by William Mark Habeeb
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful for the opportunity to read this book.
This was a compelling coming of age story—it managed to tell it without “feeling” young adult (and I don’t think it is young adult, despite the age of the narrator) which is not me trying to knock YA books, but there is definitely a vibe going on and some of the content is more adult.
Some of the pacing towards the end felt like it picked up so quickly, andI don’t love a time jump epilogue but I think the sort of cascading struggles that Moon faces really does a great job of sort of mirroring life in a really good interesting way. Definitely a compelling and interesting examination of identity development in so many ways.
This was a compelling coming of age story—it managed to tell it without “feeling” young adult (and I don’t think it is young adult, despite the age of the narrator) which is not me trying to knock YA books, but there is definitely a vibe going on and some of the content is more adult.
Some of the pacing towards the end felt like it picked up so quickly, and