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Scissors & Tweed
Tweed is the ultimate slacker. He has zilch in the way of plans. But he’s about to learn how fast zero can go negative. High school’s out, summer’s afoot, and Tweed’s content to do the usual…hang-out with friends, drink beer, get stoned, and steady bomb the neighborhood with graffiti. Yeah, he’s got nothing much else in the works and that’s just the way he likes it. That lasts about half a day. Soon enough Tweed is upside down and in over his head. He’s falling for Chloe, his best friend’s girl. Hot though she may be, that one has a few issues of her own. And then there’s some gang-bangers out to thump his head. Not enough? Tweed’s grandfather, the man who raised him, is getting harder and harder to keep nailed down. Until ol’ Pops goes all broken arrow and off the reservation entirely, that is. Yup. Whether Tweed is ready for it or not, the time has come for a boy coming of age.
242 pages, Paperback
First published April 2, 2012
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December 4, 2012
Essentially this is a coming-of-age-tale of Tweed, an orphaned(lives with grandfather), drinking, pot-smoking, school avoiding, tag spraying mid-teen roaming the streets of New York city. All four major characters are relatively typical NY youngsters if your diet is mainly rap music and US TV series. Scissors is a self-abuser not bright enough to avoid pregnancy (or maybe it is another cry for help?) also abandoned by her mother but living with her dad. Razer (sic) and Heft have supporting roles.
That makes it sound a tough read but it isn't and I can imagine that sub-twenty-five year-olds will enjoy it a lot.
The only complaints I have are that the narrators (told in first person viewpoints) all have the same tone of voice, and apart from the odd identifying speech idiosyncrasies – Scissors says “Yanno” a lot – they could be interchangeable. And the transitions from one character voice to another are badly done so that you could read half a page before realising that it is no longer Tweed talking but Scissors. If this has been done on purpose then it didn't work for me.
Really only three and a half stars but nearer the top end than the bottom.
That makes it sound a tough read but it isn't and I can imagine that sub-twenty-five year-olds will enjoy it a lot.
The only complaints I have are that the narrators (told in first person viewpoints) all have the same tone of voice, and apart from the odd identifying speech idiosyncrasies – Scissors says “Yanno” a lot – they could be interchangeable. And the transitions from one character voice to another are badly done so that you could read half a page before realising that it is no longer Tweed talking but Scissors. If this has been done on purpose then it didn't work for me.
Really only three and a half stars but nearer the top end than the bottom.
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