Author: Hannah Moskowitz
Published: 2012, Simon Pulse
Genre: Young Adult, 251 pages
Rating: 4.5/5
Sometimes I buy a book on recommendation from my friend, Kimberly, who\ always seems to know which books are on the market. Since I thoroughly enjoy reading both young adult novels and yaoi mangas she pointed out the novel Gone, Gone, Gone at our last trip to the bookstore. Impulse buy? Yes, indeed.
Craig is broken without his broken ex-boyfriend. He find comfort in his pets and avoids most people with the exception of Lio. Lio feels alive when he is with Craig. He survived cancer while his twin brother did not. As sniper shootings begin in the DC area where they live the two teenagers struggle to make sense of life and love shooting victims die. What is the pain and joy of living?
What I enjoyed most about Moskowitz writing was her style of narration. She allows her readers into the minds of her adolescent male characters as they process the world around them. The individual characterization of each boy influenced the sentences she wrote and readers will find themselves submerged in Lio's and Craig's minds. The darkness and light the reader shares with each boy is indeed a privilege.
(#10 of the 100 Book Challenge)
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