The Long Way Home: Book Two in the Homelanders Series, Andrew Klavan
Rating: Three Stars
Charlie West, now a high-school senior, has been tried and convicted for the murder of a friend. He was sent to prison, escaped, and is now on the run from the police and a terrorist organization, the Homelanders. The problem is, he doesn’t know why any of these things happened to him. His memory is a complete blank for an entire year, including the night of the murder. In The Long Way Home, Charlie returns to his hometown and the scene of the crime to get some answers.
This book reads like the middle chapters of a YA thriller: It opens with many unanswered questions and ends just the same. While the plot is fast-paced, the resolution in this novel is minimal. It is evident from the beginning that this will not be the last book in the Homelanders series. The series would have made a fantastic single novel, instead of a trilogy that feels a little drawn out. The author mentions God and praying sparingly, enough to show the main character is a Christian and takes his faith seriously, but not so much that the reader feels hit over the head with the message.
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