Rating: 
Summary: Really 3.5, but I rounded up. An immensly satisfying book!
Review: The story Hot Plastic centers on a boy named Kevin, in the late 1980's. Kevin's father, Jerry, is a small-time con artist, ripping off department stores, and the occasional unsuspecting old lady. Kevin Helps him in this, playing major roles, but he strives for bigger things, and imagines that he is only stealing from people who don't deserve what they have. Early in the story Jerry hires a girl named Colette from an associate of his to watch Kevin when he is very sick. Kevin secretly falls in love with Colette, and she becomes Jerry's young lover. She also shoves Kevin down a rung in their criminal troupe, taking Kevin's original spot. The book really was a bit confusing at first, and I found myself setting it down often, taking breaks. Soon I got adjusted to Peter Craig's interesting writing style and couldn't put this book down. The confusing part, at first, was how the story jumped around at odd places to show different times in Kevin's life, I soon begun to rather enjoy this artsy structure. I suggest this book to anyone that enjoys an immensely satisfying criminal suspense novel, and wants some tricks on how to survive underground. This is also a book you can judge by its gorgeous cover design by Allison J. Warner; she did a simply stunning job.
Rating:
Summary: Really 3.5, but I rounded up. An immensly satisfying book!
Review: The story Hot Plastic centers on a boy named Kevin, in the late 1980's. Kevin's father, Jerry, is a small-time con artist, ripping off department stores, and the occasional unsuspecting old lady. Kevin Helps him in this, playing major roles, but he strives for bigger things, and imagines that he is only stealing from people who don't deserve what they have. Early in the story Jerry hires a girl named Colette from an associate of his to watch Kevin when he is very sick. Kevin secretly falls in love with Colette, and she becomes Jerry's young lover. She also shoves Kevin down a rung in their criminal troupe, taking Kevin's original spot. The book really was a bit confusing at first, and I found myself setting it down often, taking breaks. Soon I got adjusted to Peter Craig's interesting writing style and couldn't put this book down. The confusing part, at first, was how the story jumped around at odd places to show different times in Kevin's life, I soon begun to rather enjoy this artsy structure. I suggest this book to anyone that enjoys an immensely satisfying criminal suspense novel, and wants some tricks on how to survive underground. This is also a book you can judge by its gorgeous cover design by Allison J. Warner; she did a simply stunning job.
Rating:
Summary: A great story about grifters(thieves)
Review: There are three main characters in this book you have Jerry Swift a father of one who is a crook and has run numerous scams and con's and also the holder of a title former inmate.Then there is Kevin Swift the son of Jerry who is just shy of 15 in the beginning of the story.Around the age of 12 kevins father coming around more as his mother passed away which didnot impress the grandparents and aunts much.Kevin did not see much future for himself staying with them so he runs away with his dad.Kevin is a little strange in that he eats nothing but just about pancakes and oranges,he obsessively work with something til he gets it right it and he is a pretty good with electronic gear.He also is learning the con's and scams from his father Jerry.
Then you have Colette who is around 17 probably at times a hooker and a pretty good scam artist herself who happens to get braught into the story when jerry needs to take care of some business but is afraid to leave kevin alone in a hotel room because he is very sick.After kevin recovers colette and him start to hang out.Kevin is infatuated with her almost instantly but it is father who gets the girl in the start.
So they all end up together as they go across the country they scam credit card accounts charge them up buying all kinds of merchandise and then selling off the things they buy along with running a few other scams.After a while Colette developing a taste for the finer things leaves father and son which puts quite a hole in both there lives.As time goes on father ends upgetting arrested so they all three are on different paths but as luck would have as Kevin gets arrested he runs in to Colette again see how she was the one to bail him out.
Kevin and Colette end up in europe running from the law and picpocketing and running Scams there but after a near run in with death they come back to the U.S. and hook up with Kevins father Jerry for one last big scam.
This story takes place in the early to late 80's is a good steady read with quite a suprise ending.Would definitely give it a read
Rating: 
Summary: An Amazing Read!!!!!!!
Review: Wow!!! What a wonderfully exciting book. A friend of mine recomended it to me about a week ago and I just could not put it down. I LOVED IT!. It is a suspspensful, funny, page-turning ride. I did not want it to end, I wish that Craig would write a sequel. It was so detailed, I mean the work the writer must have done to research this book must have been extremly extensive. It is a must read. I would tell anyone to buy Hot Plastic today and to give to all of their friends.
Rating:
Summary: An Amazing Read
Review: Wow!!! What an amazingly wonderful new book. A friend of mine recomended this book to me a few days ago and I just could not put it down. It is a funny, suspensful, page-turning ride. I did not want it to end. The characters are wonderfully interesting and deep. I almost feel as if I know them personally. I wish Mr. Craig would write a sequel.
Rating:
Summary: Buckle your seat belts
Review: You will not be able to put this book down. It's funny and fast, very suspenseful and beautifully written. But Hot Plastic is really a character study and these characters are well worth studing. I didn't want the book to end. Please, Mr Craig, write a sequal.
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