The Crash review

Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the greatest book review show on the internet, as proclaimed by me. In todays episode, I will be reviewing the crash by Lisa Drakeford, which was released on the 6th July 2017, it was published by chicken house, and was the second novel written by Lisa Drakeford.

Now that I've given you some information about the book, I would like to talk a bit about what I think this book, although there isn't much to expand upon. This book has well written characters, witty dialogue, and a fairly original plot. The story is told from three perspectives, two in the present, and one two years in the past, and although I feel that one of the perspectives in the present is unneeded, the three perspectives are clearly separated, and it is never unclear who is talking.

On the opposite side of the coin, there the things this book does badly, but to be fair, I have only found two things this book does badly, although they're both fairly major. For you see, this book has six main characters, and I think one of the characters could be scrapped, and the main plot of the book would only change slightly, as Ill explain in a second. The plot of this book revolves around a car that was driven into a house containing two of the main characters, Tye and Sophie, and the car contained another three main characters, Harry Gemma and Deano. The sixth main character, Issy, witnessed the car crash from next door, and this becomes important later as the details of the crash become key to the police investigation. About 100 pages of the books 36 in total are spent with Issy, detailing how they're are abused by their stepdad, which explains why Issy was in a position to witness the incident. As I mentioned earlier, I believe that the character of Issy is unneeded, as she and her story exist purely to have someone who has an unclouded memory of the incident. (This is the point in the review when it gets a bit spoilery, so if you are interested in reading this book and don't want anything spoiled, I advise that you skip to the next paragraph. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED). The reason an unclouded memory of the incident is needed is that later in the book it is revealed that Harry, who has been taking the blame as the one who was driving, was actually covering for Gemma. However, harry becomes romantically involved with Sophie, and therefore this information could've been discovered from harry breaking down while talking to Sophie, and would've been an excellent demonstration of how harry is torn between trying to protect Gemma and getting closer to Sophie and trying to return his life to normal.

My other complaint with this book is that because of the way this book tells its story, at a certain point the storyline becomes somewhat predictable as it is fairly easy to guess what happens between where you are in the story and how it ends up, however I'm not sure if it's possible to write a story in this way without that problem arising, so take this point with a grain of salt.

In conclusion, this book has some faults in its predictability and unneeded plot device, but I believe this book is still worth reading because of its characters, originality and writing. I give this book an 8/10 and would recommend it for people above the age of twelve because of its crude-at-times language and scenes of violence.