Homeless since he was twelve and a drug addict just as long, fifteen-year-old Wally spends his days collecting recyclables, hanging out with his best friends, and singing to his heart’s content in a town called Emporium.When a new dealer shows up in place of their old one, Wally is immediately attracted and finds himself with the possibility of his first boyfriend. On the same night, the man he … the man he knows as Doc asks him if he’d like a job in a research lab.
The money is good, his new romance is developing quickly, and everything in life seems better than ever, but the new people in his life will bring more chaos into his world than he ever could have imagined. There are changes and dangers around every corner, and Wally is torn in two directions while wanting only peace for Emporium.
This is a dark series that doesn’t hold back on the tragedy. You have been warned. Although other books in this series fit the romance genre, this one does not. None of them can be read as a stand-alone novel.
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I enjoyed this addition to the series. This book demonstrates young adults experiencing hard lives all captured into a book. We can watch it unfold through wally’s eyes and perspective. Wally is a good friend, although he is homeless and living life with an addiction. Therefore, we can see that its not a life that Wally wants to live. This book again kept my attention from beginning to end, just like the first book.The characters are well thought out and I enjoyed following through out the story. I hope there is another book to the series.
Wally is such a good read and it is a bit sobering in ways that its characters are not. It is a mix of some many things, sad and emotional among them. In a lot of ways the story took us on a trip, which was symbolic of what was going on with the main characters. I recommend it but be ready for it.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Wally – 5 devastating shining stars
I never felt more struggled to write a review until now.
Young lives, experiencing a hard life like no other. We can watch it through Wally’s eyes and brain.
Take a seat, don’t forget to fasten your seatbelts, because it will be a rough ride.
We can see the very highs and lows of a homeless young boy who lives from one pill to the other. He is kind, forgiving and an amazingly good friend. His mind is sometimes flat, with now and then a crack where emotions got to flee.
It was quite a hard read. Being sober and constantly in the world of Wally isn’t easy. It’s depressing and dirty and empty. There is so much more to experience. When Doc takes, more or less, care of Wally, his situation is changing. His place in more steady, but not quite what Wally wants out of life.
Spitz is his best friend, who’s with him on the streets from when he was twelve.
They try to find food to stay alive and shelter for the night, they are dirty but alive!
Wally’s score on happiness is always ten. No matter how the conditions are it’s a ten.
Doc works on special drug formulas in his lab. He asks Wally to try them. When Wally’s score gets lower Doc wants to change it.
Doc tries to find a way the youth can do without drugs. Wally tries to convince him nobody wants to live without them.
Wally is in love with Nando, Nando is as unstable as Wally. Wally has the worst and best experience with Nando.
“What do I taste like?” I asked. “Rainbows and sunshine,” he said.”
When Wally takes a job from Doc his life gets a tiny bit better, he can shower and have food. When he has to travel to Doc’s brother to bring some blood samples, his life turns many grades.
The sky is everything, it brings so much space in the head. The forces on the street are fighting for a place.
I was in awe of Wally and his view on life. He was lovable and so very kind toward the world. The songs are of importance to him. I grant him peace and never-ending friendship.
Sometimes this story confused the hell out of me because I didn’t always understand the terminology. Was it meant literally or figuratively? I made my own explanation and that worked for me. Taking part in the highs from a trip and see and experience what Wally did was unbelievable, out of the world into space on to the stars… hmmm it was fun but the knowledge why was depressing.
For a great part, this journey was kind of a psychedelic experience.
The further the story the more clearer all got. Even though no one wants it to be clear except Doc. Emotions got more real, therein lies the quest: is it good or not.
I think my review isn’t as understandable as I think it is. Forgive me, it speaks how I experienced this story.
When you can handle a dark hopeless story where pills and friends are of great importance please take a seat and read it.
In the end, I cried and after that, I felt numb and after I finished my review I cried again feeling helpless.
I completely forgot to mention how the writing was… Captivating and close to the heart