Review: Ok for Kids...Needs a Bit Of Work...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2013
For middle school grade kids (11-14) this story is ok....Anyone older?  Not so much.  The YA category is older than the age that should read this book.Good idea and different which is always good.Book needs polishing concerning the typos and some changes must be made to match previous statements so it's not contradictory.In book one, Renee's latest adoptive father (the attorney) ALWAYS has a whole wheat bagel in the mornings and the author makes a big deal of letting the reader know he's pretty anal about his routine, but in the excerpt from book two, it turns into a whole wheat muffin.Even middle school kids are bright and will catch this discrepancy.A few of the analogies are pretty silly such as "like two hyperactive rattlesnakes doing the salsa" and "a skinned raccoon in Sunday's soup."C'mon.In an excerpt from book two, Renee allows herself to simply walk off with some stranger in a Darth Vader costume after a death threat the night before, her private investigator thinking her situation bad enough to take a position as her sub gym teacher and an entire book one of cycling and going through hell.  You'd think she'd be apprehensive.  Nope.  Walked right off with some guy.Then, the private detective can't manage a couple of gun shots to even hit the car driving away, but Sam somehow managed to smack the Darth Vader guy in the face with a football when he'd never even picked up a football before, let alone throw one before that day.  He had no practice and only one lesson lasting a couple of minutes at best.  Too far fetched and completely unbelievable.It was easy for me to catch these things and kids are smart.  They'll catch it as well.I like the originality of the story however.  Refreshing to see something different besides the teenage vampire guy and the wholesome mousy girl he likes.