Review: That's What Brothers Do

That's What Brothers Do by Derekica Snake

My rating: 1 of 5 stars



First of all: I didn't finish this book. This is bad for two reasons.
1. It's a short story.
2. I usually read the books, even those I don't like to much.

This shows that the story for me wasn't good at all. I didn't have to high hopes, thought it might be a good book to pass time.

The writing was done poorly. It had a lot of typos that irritated me and destroyed the flow of the rhythm. The thing with the writing style that annoyed me the most was that it felt like it was an ordinary fiction anyone could manage to write when they're 15. It was nothing special. The book didn't manage to grab me; force me to read to find out what happened to Goth Boy. I wasn't interested. I didn't care for Goth Boy. I could understand he was insecure after all he gone through. But he just came of as to weak and... not so realistic - unmanly? His role might as been given to a girl character, wasn't he even forced to have really long hair? And that he had no clue at all how to act in the real world outside of the brothel? He annoyed me. The plot annoyed me. A 14 year old boy selling himself to a brothel to help his family? I couldn't say that it may or haven't never happened, but it seemed unrealistic. A sister that hates him one minute but then all of a sudden accepts him and loves him ('cause she didn't get her money any more)? A father that, as far as I know, never bothered to search or help his son? The man owning Goth Boy "loves" Goth Boy?

My thoughts might have been explained in the end. But I didn't care to find out, and I'm not sad that I never finished it.



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