Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin

Okay, this one didn't quite tickle my fancy. . . Blood Brothers is about a friendship between two teenage boys. Written from the first person point of view of one of the boys, it tries to unravel the mystery of what happened to Joey that landed him in a coma. However, it isn't much of a mystery. Much of the novel is set in a hospital, and Harazin's experience as a nurse definitely allows her to write about that setting well.
The book comes across a bit preachy - kind of a "say no to drugs" message wrapped up neatly into the plot. I wasn't immediately drawn into the book, and the timeline of the story kept shifting from the present to the narrator's memories of the past. However, the story was okay until the end. The ending was entirely unsatisfactory - too many complications neatly come together to provide a resolution to the plot, so the conclusion seems a bit contrived. In order to "wrap up" the story, many of the complex issues are resolved rather simplistically, which left me with kind of an empty feeling at the end.