Merry Christmas Eve… as
a special treat today we have an extra review from Kaye George separate from
her Monday posts. Enjoy!
Fighting Chance by B.
K. Stevens
This is what you’ve been looking for! If you’re looking for
a book for teen boys, you know they’re scarce. This one has enough excitement,
twists, and turns to keep them up way too late on a school night, avidly
reading.
Not only is it about an appealing group of four, sometimes
five kids, who don’t always get along, it’s also about the nice and not-so-nice
teachers they share, and about family relationships that are not always ideal.
But it’s also about martial arts.
Their coach is facing an opponent as the book opens, but the
main character, Matt, thinks something is a bit off about this other guy. His
name is Bobby Davis and he’s come from a dojo in Richmond to Ridgecrest for the
competition. He neither looks like a fighter nor acts like one, until the
moment he crushes Coach Colson’s larynx with a spinning hook kick. Was it
intentional or an accident? Most people say the latter. Matt knows they’re
wrong.
When he and his friends try to dig deeper and find out who
Bobby Davis is and why he wanted to kill the coach, trouble starts happening
all around them. They seem to be antagonizing some dangerous people. Matt and
his friends, including the intriguing Graciana, join a krav maga class as
result of some of their investigating. That’s a good thing, because they’ll
need their wits about them and all the martial arts training they have to get
through this.
Kaye George ©2015
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