A review by booksandbosox
Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin

4.0

This was a truly bizarre book. Stan Smith is working at Happy Video the summer after high school ends. He's a genius, but he's going nowhere. He fears for his life at the hands of Chad Chilton, whose girlfriend he lusts after, and he just doesn't understand his hippie mom and inventor dad. At times, this was hard to follow, simply because it was so unusual. I didn't like how the mystery of the slashed tires and red dolls was solved - it didn't seem very likely to happen in real life. However, Stan is an interesting character and I did like the end. At times, I was annoyed by him because it was clear that he knew what he was doing and simply pretended to be clueless. Frenetic is a good word for this one I think.