Quid pro quo

Reader response to Quid Pro Quo by Vicki Grant

Inside cover reads:

"Cyril MacIntyre's mother is a twenty-eight-year-old ex-street kid who drags her son to all her law school classes, then proceeds to get herself kidnapped. That aside, Cyril's life isn't all that different from other thirteen-year-olds'. He has all the usual adolescent issues to deal with, parent problems, self esteem problems, skin, hair, and girl problems. He just has legal problems too. And he's got to solve them if he wants to save his mother's live."

My rxn:

The inside cover is more interesting than the entire book! It's a weak mystery novel, and that's all. I do like the style in which it was written; it was very sarcastic and colorful. There could have been more though.

Quotes:

"By noon the waiting room was packed, and I know it really stank too because whenever I ran for a sub, I'd come back and the smell would hit me like someone had just thrown a big juicy perspiration cream pie in my face" (13).

"Andy looked at him like he was one of those slimy hair-boogers that clog up the shower drain" (32).

It's not bad, but it's not good, either.