Cali Callahan runs Venice Beach. He knows the place like the back of his hand. As a teenage runaway, he has built a life for himself away from home. When a private investigator tries to employ him to find other missing people, however, Cali's charmed reality is put into question. He must consider if it's right to turn in other runaways who do not want to be found, particularly when he begins to fall for one of them. The Prince of Venice Beach refines "home" and first love as Cali Callahan chooses what kind of man he will be.
The Prince of Venice Beach is the kind of novel you want to have with you on vacation. If you read it at home, you'll wish you were there on the beach with the misfits that Cali runs with. But, reading this novel on vacation might have you relieved that you aren't dealing with the moral conflicts that he is. This novel can be deceiving: Cali seems like he has his business together when his story begins. However, the reader must recognize that he is just as lost mentally as he is geographically. But for all of the frustration I had with sitting at home (and not on the beach), The Prince of Venice Beach was enjoyable. Not the kind of book I'll read again and probably not even one I'll recommend, but a book I still liked. SORRY FOR THE LACK OF RAD VOCAB. It was good.
The Prince of Venice Beach is the kind of novel you want to have with you on vacation. If you read it at home, you'll wish you were there on the beach with the misfits that Cali runs with. But, reading this novel on vacation might have you relieved that you aren't dealing with the moral conflicts that he is. This novel can be deceiving: Cali seems like he has his business together when his story begins. However, the reader must recognize that he is just as lost mentally as he is geographically. But for all of the frustration I had with sitting at home (and not on the beach), The Prince of Venice Beach was enjoyable. Not the kind of book I'll read again and probably not even one I'll recommend, but a book I still liked. SORRY FOR THE LACK OF RAD VOCAB. It was good.