They were very much side-lined and we never quite got to find out more about them which I would've liked. Of course, with a show you have more episodes and more time to flesh characters out and to make the viewer bond with the characters, which may be a factor, but I felt like a lot of the characters in Rats Saw God weren't very fleshed out at all. You can see the same writing style and a lot of similarities between this book and Veronica Mars but I think Veronica Mars feels more advanced and you can tell he improved on his weaker areas by the time it came to writing the show. I think it's easy to tell that this was pre-Veronica Mars and Party Down, though. Ages 12-up.I thought this book was really good, and I think it's one of the better YA books. Readers will likely enjoy the quick pace of Steve's journal-style flashbacks on a deeper level, they will be moved by his emotional stumbles and impressed by his growing maturity. The dialogue is fresh and Steve's intelligent banter and introspective musings never sound wiser than his years.
The sharp descriptions of cliques, clubs and annoying authority figures will strike a familiar chord. Thomas, a former high school teacher, nails his setting with dead-on accuracy.
His last chance for academic redemption lies in writing a 100-page paper for his new guidance counselor, a narrative that becomes the framework for this novel. But Dub's eventual betrayal causes Steve to flee his father's home and take a dive from scholar to stoner.
Life with ""the astronaut"" (as Steve insists on calling him) is okay for a while as Steve juggles straight-As with a part-time job and hangs out with a wise-cracking crew of artsy, nonconformist cronies, one of whom, Dub, becomes his first love.
When his parents divorce just before he begins high school, Steve blames his father for the family's break-up, even though he doesn't know all the facts. Steve York has always lived in the long shadow cast by his too-perfect astronaut father. In his first novel Thomas lays bare the pain, awkwardness and humor at the heart of one teenager's search for identity.
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