The Long Way Home
Andrew Klavan
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Charlie West is an eighteen year old boy that wakes up one morning to find out that a year has past and his is being hunted by both a rogue terrorist group as well as the police. Although he lived that year, he doesn’t remember any of the events of that year, including the murder that he was convicted of performing and developing a relationship with the girl he had come to love. This is about his journey back to his hometown, and location of the murder, in order to find answers and to clear his name.
The Long Way Home is the second book of the Homelanders Series, and I would hope to think had I read the first one I might have enjoyed this one better. Mr. Klavan does a good job of catching up the reader who picks up the book for the first time, but I feel he relies on flashbacks to tell too much of the story, which I would expect to know had I read the first book. The current events of the book only take up a small portion of the book, which I was disappointed in.
With the exception of all the flashbacks taking up the majority of the book, the book is well written, especially for its intended young adult audience. Mr. Klavan does a good job of creating a main character who live the values that he believes in, values that teens need to adopt for their daily life. It is a plot filled with promise, I just would have enjoyed more of the current story, not living in the past.
