I am in an advanced program at school, and for a school assignment I read The Goats. It wasn't that bad a book to be perfectly frank, but it was certainly not good. Laura, the girl who is abandoned on Goat Island without her clothes, is at the beginning a good enough character with some fight in her. Characters are supposed to grow in books, but in The Goats Laura especially shrinks. She and Howie steal, lie, and partake in embezzlement. With a twelfth grade reading level, I was disappointed in Brock Cole's novel. Though The Goats caught and held my attention, I was not sad to finish the book as I often am with books I enjoyed reading. At the risk of getting a lot of people to read this book, I was unfortunately reminded of Stephanie Meyer's book series Twilight.