Title: Ice, Ice Baby!
Product review: Ten pages into this book, I was already in love with it. Unlike the previous book I had just read ("Old School" -- blah!), "The Year of Ice" had substance. The narrator, Kevin, an 18-year-old, came to life immediately. He enjoyed dark humor and sarcasm -- two of my favorite traits! -- and it was readily evident from the "get-go." His observations throughout the book (in thought and verbalized) felt so real. He would think one thing, but say another. The entire book felt like watching a movie made from a book by Bret Easton Ellis -- "American Psycho" and "Rules of Attraction" -- because of the detail of observation. The writer, Brian Malloy, captured the 70s to a "T" and went into painful -- yet humorous -- detail about what it feels like as a teenager and feeling like you're the only one who has feelings for the same sex. I can't wait to read Malloy's next book!
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