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Reviewed by Bil Howard for Readers' Favorite
The minute Dane McArdle bumped into her as she was leaving the doctor’s office, her whole world began to change drastically. Sophia Armitage had some significant decisions to make about how she was going to handle her future and who was going to be in control of it in Free From the Tracks: The Teen Mayhem Series Book 1. K.T. Bowes tells the story of what ought to be a somewhat normal twelfth year for a teen at an inner city New Zealand high school, which is suddenly ripped apart by the disappearance of Sophia’s mother who is dying of cancer, leaving Sophia and her father alone. Added to that drama, which has caused her to distance herself from her friends and her only protection from the “plastics,” a mean set of girls who had already beaten her up in ninth year, is the new friendship that she has developed with Dane. Dane is from the “wrong side of the tracks,” but the line that the tracks forms in order to divide the two becomes more and more dim as she comes to realize the truth about Dane. The new problem that she faces is that the jealous “plastics” won’t stand for letting her and Dane be together and they have plenty of abuse laid out for her. Will she fight back or go down without a murmur?
K.T. Bowes has written an excellent beginning to a series that is sure to be exciting and full of drama in Free From the Tracks: The Teen Mayhem Series Book 1. The action and drama is all too real as Dane and Sophia navigate their way through crippling circumstances that challenge the depths of their strength as they are forced to press forward practically alone. The reader will feel the depth of emotion and the struggle that each of them faces as they work out their challenges, both separately and together. Deep, realistic and in many ways inspiring, Free From the Tracks: The Teen Mayhem Series Book 1 is not only a fantastic coming of age novel on its own, but a great beginning to a promising series.
