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A review by abigailbat
Fake ID by Lamar Giles
4.0
Nick Pearson is the new kid at his high school and he has secrets.
First of all, Nick Pearson is not his real name.
Nick's family is part of the Witness Protection Program and this town is their last chance. Nick's dad has a hard time staying out of trouble, even when he knows it could be dangerous for his family. The Program won't keep relocating them forever. They have one last shot.
Nick becomes friends with a kid named Eli, the one-kid force behind the school newspaper. But as he gets to know Eli, he realizes that Eli is not just messing around with the school news. He's stumbled onto a secret town project called Whispertown. Eli knows that crime stats aren't being reported in his town - but why?
And when Nick's dad starts disappearing in the evenings and lying about where he's been, Nick has a sinking feeling that his dad is dabbling in dangerous territory once again. Territory that could get them kicked out of the Witness Protection Program for good, or worse...
We're reading thrillers for Reading Wildly next month, so I picked this one up. Mystery is not normally my genre, but this one definitely kept the pages turning. Giles does a great job of ending chapters on little cliffhangers or beginning chapters with cryptic sentences that make you want to keep reading. And I definitely did not see the twist coming.
I'd hand this to high schoolers who like fast-paced mystery stories. Although there is a lot of violence in the story, most of it takes place "off camera", so it's not in-your-face gory.
First of all, Nick Pearson is not his real name.
Nick's family is part of the Witness Protection Program and this town is their last chance. Nick's dad has a hard time staying out of trouble, even when he knows it could be dangerous for his family. The Program won't keep relocating them forever. They have one last shot.
Nick becomes friends with a kid named Eli, the one-kid force behind the school newspaper. But as he gets to know Eli, he realizes that Eli is not just messing around with the school news. He's stumbled onto a secret town project called Whispertown. Eli knows that crime stats aren't being reported in his town - but why?
And when Nick's dad starts disappearing in the evenings and lying about where he's been, Nick has a sinking feeling that his dad is dabbling in dangerous territory once again. Territory that could get them kicked out of the Witness Protection Program for good, or worse...
We're reading thrillers for Reading Wildly next month, so I picked this one up. Mystery is not normally my genre, but this one definitely kept the pages turning. Giles does a great job of ending chapters on little cliffhangers or beginning chapters with cryptic sentences that make you want to keep reading. And I definitely did not see the twist coming.
I'd hand this to high schoolers who like fast-paced mystery stories. Although there is a lot of violence in the story, most of it takes place "off camera", so it's not in-your-face gory.