Just finished Michael Simmons' Finding Lubchenko. It's the story of Evan Macalister, son of an older, widowed, multi-millionaire pharmaceutical business owner. Dad doesn't think kids should be handed everything so he keeps a pretty tight rein on Evan. To get the money that he thinks he's entitled to, Evan steals office equipment from dad's company and sells it on-line. Suddenly, dad is arrested for murder in what appears to be part of a larger deal involving illegal sales of smallpox virus. Evan has the dead man's laptop, which could help free his father, but that would expose his theft scheme, so Evan and 2 friends set out to find a man known only by the name Lubchenko, mentioned in e-mails on the stolen laptop. I really wanted to dislike this book at first, because of Evan entitlement attitude, but it was actually a pretty good book. If you're looking for a lot of action, this book may not be for you. But it is a very good character study as you get to know some of the background about Evan's dad and their prior relationship. And even though Evan is still a spoiled rich kid, you see that he has a lot of universal teen issues that are played out nicely. One thing I really did like about the book, was that it didn't have a sugary ending, and it could very easily have gone that way. The ending, although leaving some unanswered questions, was believable.
Friday, September 29, 2006
What Mrs. N's Been Reading
Just finished Michael Simmons' Finding Lubchenko. It's the story of Evan Macalister, son of an older, widowed, multi-millionaire pharmaceutical business owner. Dad doesn't think kids should be handed everything so he keeps a pretty tight rein on Evan. To get the money that he thinks he's entitled to, Evan steals office equipment from dad's company and sells it on-line. Suddenly, dad is arrested for murder in what appears to be part of a larger deal involving illegal sales of smallpox virus. Evan has the dead man's laptop, which could help free his father, but that would expose his theft scheme, so Evan and 2 friends set out to find a man known only by the name Lubchenko, mentioned in e-mails on the stolen laptop. I really wanted to dislike this book at first, because of Evan entitlement attitude, but it was actually a pretty good book. If you're looking for a lot of action, this book may not be for you. But it is a very good character study as you get to know some of the background about Evan's dad and their prior relationship. And even though Evan is still a spoiled rich kid, you see that he has a lot of universal teen issues that are played out nicely. One thing I really did like about the book, was that it didn't have a sugary ending, and it could very easily have gone that way. The ending, although leaving some unanswered questions, was believable.
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