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A review by jdscott50
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
mysterious
medium-paced
5.0
Best-selling author of Nothing to See Here and the Family Fang returns with a new book. In Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not The Time to Panic, two lonely kids form a bond and create a poster that upends their community. Years later, one is a successful novelist, but a secret from that time threatens to upend her world.
A call out of the blue brings it all back. Were you the one who started the Coalfield Panic? She is instantly transported back to 1997 Coalfield, Tennessee. She's a young girl who wants to impress a boy. Then she is a teen, an outcast, and a fugitive when she meets the boy again. Finding a stolen photocopier in their garage, they decide to make art that shocks the tone. Originally started as an art project and a prank, thingsget out of hand as the parnoid townspeople this its froma cult, a biker bang, Satnatnists or even worse. The town goes wild and gets nationwide attention for the posters. When people start being kild from tehpanic they panic and Zeke ends up leaving town. IT is only the reporters random discovery that ends up brin them back together.
"The edge is a shantytown filled with goldseekers, we are the new fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.
It is a good combination of 80s Satantic Panic phenomenon and 90s punk counter culture. The part when they are living through the panic is packed with so much imagery. It is sort of a let down when it takes place years later. The reconnection is important for the author as it resembled a friendship he had growing up but had'nt been able to reconnect.
A call out of the blue brings it all back. Were you the one who started the Coalfield Panic? She is instantly transported back to 1997 Coalfield, Tennessee. She's a young girl who wants to impress a boy. Then she is a teen, an outcast, and a fugitive when she meets the boy again. Finding a stolen photocopier in their garage, they decide to make art that shocks the tone. Originally started as an art project and a prank, thingsget out of hand as the parnoid townspeople this its froma cult, a biker bang, Satnatnists or even worse. The town goes wild and gets nationwide attention for the posters. When people start being kild from tehpanic they panic and Zeke ends up leaving town. IT is only the reporters random discovery that ends up brin them back together.
"The edge is a shantytown filled with goldseekers, we are the new fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.
It is a good combination of 80s Satantic Panic phenomenon and 90s punk counter culture. The part when they are living through the panic is packed with so much imagery. It is sort of a let down when it takes place years later. The reconnection is important for the author as it resembled a friendship he had growing up but had'nt been able to reconnect.