Full Service
By: Will Weaver
Genre: YA Historical/Realistic Fiction
Pages: 240
Published: 2005
Read: October
2 out of 5
This book
was a fast read and OK story. The best aspect was that it takes place in 1965, so
some of the references are fun. The premise is a mother from a very religious
family, similar to the Amish community, encourages her son to get a job at a
full service gas station in town. Against her husband’s wishes, she wants him to
see other experiences. There he meets many unique individuals and supposedly gets
involved in the other side of life. However, I felt the story fell way short.
The story needed to go more in-depth about the religious aspects; what they are
able to do/not do and how sheltered their life is because I felt he wasn’t exposed
to anything unusual for a teenage boy; nor did he act like he was much. I
wanted him to be more rebellious.
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