Book Review: Lost Between Houses

The Book Lost Between Houses, is about a boy named Simon Albright, a 16 year old teenager that is going through one of the toughest ages for a person. He starts off in a French restaurant where his mom convinces him to throw a party. He is scared to do it but does it anyways. Before the day of the party he has all these different emotions rush through him at random times that make him nervous. Even still, during the party he cannot still. There is always this feeling that something wrong is going to happen, even though at the end of the day nothing really bad happened. This book shows the different emotions that the average teenager goes through routinely and the difficulties that many people have on a daily basis.
A main feeling of this book is anxiety. During the whole book Simon is worried about something bad happening and other people thinking bad things about him. The author wrote this book in the perspective of the teenager. This is a much more vulgar language than the author would have used which gives a much more realistic experience when reading the book. Almost every aspect of this book relates to adolescents because it is about the struggles that most teenagers go through. This book is similar to Great Expectations in the way that it is about a boy learning and moving on through the struggles of adolescents. There is a simile on page 116, “Some of them smelt like incense” (116), and another one on page 123, “he made that face again, like he had a piece of rotting fish in his mouth.” (123). These devices are used to enhance the book and make it more exciting than a book that uses no rhetorical devices to let out expression.
I think this book had potential and was decently written, but it was no Harry Potter. With saying that, I would recommend this book to teenagers, especially kids in high school because it would show them that they are not alone and that what they are going through is what most people have to go through as well.