I started to enjoy HAWKES HARBOR a little more after the vampire's entrance into the story. These scenes and the language used in them don't fit with the type of narrative used through the rest of the novel. But adding a few sex scenes and some curse words doesn't make a story into adult fare. The beginning section of HAWKES HARBOR is very much a young adult's book while the rest of the novel only escapes the label by the writer's use of mature material. It happens so often that it gets confusing. Throughout the course of the novel the reader is taken back and forth in time, as we learn about Jamie, Kellen, and Grenville's histories. The book resembles other adventure novels like TREASURE ISLAND, and I had to remind myself that it was supposed to be set in the middle of the 20th century when the book constantly made me think that it was placed in the 1880s. There's lots of talk about pirates, fighting for treasure, drinking, and general brawling that makes it too easy for the reader to forget that the story is supposed to be set in modern times.
The novel takes place between 19 but it's almost impossible to remember that at times. HAWKES HARBOR is the first novel written for adults by S E Hinton, a young adult novelist. He immediately attacks Jamie, but doesn't go so far as to kill him - he bites him just enough to make Jamie his slave to do his bidding. Jamie unlocks the chains and opens the coffin and frees Grenville Hawkes, a vampire, who has been in the coffin for centuries and is filled with anger. One night he goes to the island and finds a cave with a coffin bound with chains. Living in a boarding house, Jamie hears about an island where the wealthy Hawkes family used to live, and where there is supposed to be buried treasure. Kellen and Jamie had many adventures but nothing compared to what Jamie encounters at Hawkes Harbor, Delaware. Eventually he took to the sea where he met Kellen Quinn who became a father figure to him and his partner in crime.
He grew up to be a violent young man who loved to drink and fight. Jamie Sommers had a hard life living with the nuns after his mother died.
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