Everything Matters!

I was not impressed by this book at all! I found myself struggling to read the last few chapters and was disappointed when I finally finished. A first the book seemed like it was going to be a good and interesting coming of age story but then the story just went out into left field somewhere. One good thing I can say about the book is it was really well written and the author did a good job bringing the characters to life. It was easy to see and imagine each one in there daily lives. The readability of this book is terrible because of how the book keeps jumping characters, time periods, and places. It was confusing most of the time trying to figure out how many years had passed between each chapter and where the chapter's character was at. And what was the deal with the numbers in certain chapters that I found had absolutely no purpose? The chapters were long, written in small font, and many served little purpose to the story. The plot was very twisted and almost seemed to be twisted just for the sake of being twisted. A guy blew up a Social Security building and after that it was not mentioned again. The main character somehow ended up in a post-Soviet rule prison in Bulgaria, but Why? I don't know. Honestly I would NEVER recommend this book to a young adult reader mainly because of the intense drug use and criminal activity. And it would be a far stretch for me to recommend this book to anyone. This is all just my opinion but I would be hard pressed to find the right person who would enjoy this book.