A review by coralinejones
Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton

2.5

Very short book that lacks the charm "The Outsiders" has. Feels like it's set in the same exact universe, as expected from S.E. Hinton's work. They're all quite similar from one another. And it doesn't help that Matt Dillon is in both adaptations of her books playing damn near the same character. I mention this because I actually watched Rumble Fish during my Outsiders phase in middle school and knew I wanted to read the book eventually. Took forever but I finally got here and I can't help but question the overall point of the book. I didn't really like or care about these characters in comparison to how Hinton got me to care about the ones in The Outsiders; we also don't spend enough time with them to feel any real emotion for them in my opinion.