Review: The Orphaned Anythings

****1/2

The Orphaned Anythings is in the least a perfect portrayal of the life of today’s post-adolescent young adults. The book follows a young man, Ayden Kosacov, as he ventures through his mundane uneventful days. Ayden has no purpose and no real direction in his life. The motto of his existence seems to be “I’m up, what more do you want from me?” Ayden watches the world around him progressing and changing and yet he sees himself remaining in the same place. At first he seems content with his bland existence. Later, his realization of the empty life that he leads, drives him to the point of attempting suicide. How does Ayden get past this difficult moment in his life? My suggestion is read the book, it is a classic!

I found this story to be beautifully written by author Stephen Christian. Christian presents this character to be borderline depressed and slowly winding down to the brink of insanity. The book is depressing at times and yet takes a 180 after the first two thirds of the book. The book then turns into an uplifting depiction of a young man hitting rock bottom and receiving the strength to bounce back up.

The only real problems I had with the book was the lack of detail included in the characters lives and a description of the significance of each person. Each character seems to play some sort of involvement in Ayden’s state of mind and yet the level of their involvement is left to the imagination. The book itself is short. an addition to the pages could have included more description about characters and situations as well as providing more of a build up towards the dramatic climax. Aside from that I encountered a few spelling and grammatical errors in the writing which lead me to wonder if this book was edited before being released. Aside from that, I think this book is brilliant and I definitely reccomend that you take the time to read it.