Rating:  Summary: Amazing Summer Read Review: This book is truly amazing. All of the "what if" questions about the mafia seem to be answered in this great story. What if a mafia prince teen decided he didn't like the family business? What if that same teen wanted to just be normal? What if that teen wanted to go out with a girl who's father works for the FBI? What if that girl's father was the agent bugging his house? The book is truly amazing, filled with laugh out loud text, and a great romantic story, this book is a definite, must have.
Rating:  Summary: good book Review: This book son of the mob was a good book. it peaked my interest and it made me want to keep reading cuz it kept getting better and better.Vince the main character and he had a struggle that made him try to keep his love life in secret from his father wich was the leader of the mob and keep from meeting the girls father because the father of the girl was already an fbi agent that was trying to find and convict vince's father
It was a really good book!!!!!
Rating:  Summary: Don¿t expect the Sopranos¿. Review: This book tells the story of Vince Luca, a pretty normal 17 year old, except for, oh yeah, he's family is in the mob. The story moves back and forth between Vince trying to figure out how much, if any, he wants to be involved in the "family business" and his budding love affair with Kendra. Oh, Kendra's dad just so HAPPENS to be an FBI agent, and the one that's investigating Vince's family. I saw most of the twists in the story coming from miles away, and it everything was a bit unbelievable. Plus, I felt like Vince never really got developed as a character.
Rating:  Summary: tubular Review: This book was probably the most interesting book i have ever read in school. This would be something i would go to the bookstore and get. Usually school books are about learning, but this was about gansters and killing. Sure it had its little love story on the side, but it was truely action packed, and keep you wanting to read more. Great book, and i recommend it to anyone who likes mob movies or action in general.
Rating:  Summary: Its amazing Review: This book was really funny, I am so glad i read it. It puts a funny twist on a disfunctional family.
Rating:  Summary: a hilarious book Review: This was a great book and I couldn't put it down. Vince, the main character, doesn't want anything to do with the family "vending machine" business, and ends up dating the enemy. it was a great book I recommend to everyone!
Rating:  Summary: Hilarious Review: This was an entertaining, laugh-out-loud book! Max Casella was awesome as the reader, and his voices are very believable. I was swept into the interesting story immediately, and it never lost my attention. Korman created in-depth characters and a great plot with comedy, romance, and suspense!
Rating:  Summary: Worth every penny! Review: Vince is a typical 17-year-old in an atypical situation, where breaking the law is normal, while following the law when doing something for someone shows you "really care" about them. The way Korman depicts The Life from a frustrated teenager's eyes is witty and hilarious and kept me turning the pages, even when I could already predict who was putting up the "Kendra and Vince for Homecoming king and queen" signs and why the Meow Marketplace was filling up with odd advertisements for cats. The ending is happy, but in the long run, I kind of doubt Vince and Kendra can pull it off. An FBI agent may not do anything about his daughter seeing a mob prince, but a mob king will very likely do something efficient about his son seeing an agent's daughter. Also, as Vince had mentioned, if Kendra's dad puts Vince's family in jail, how will he feel toward Kendra? But, there's the sign of a really good book, that it kept me thinking about it long after I'd read it. Worth every penny!
Rating:  Summary: Son of the Mob - keeper Review: Vince Luca is a 17 year-old student who just wants to live the common high school life. Chasing girls, playing football, and other "normal" things are what he aspires to. However, Vince is in a rather precarious situation. His father is a mob boss and Vince wants to have nothing to do with it. His entire family with the exception of his mother, believes that one day he will come around and accept his position. Vince suffers the classic struggle of a protagonist trying to escape his family's reputation and image. However, Vince ends up right where he didn't want to be, posed by the F.B.I. as a loan-shark for his father's business. The book "Son Of The Mob" is the perfect blend of something which, is very serious (mob-affiliation), and applying it to highschool life, something almost all teens can relate to. It is comedic excellence and had me yelling, gripped, and shaking my head at the misfortune and unexpected turns that Vince Luca takes. At every moment, Gordon Korman throws in another piece of the plot to thicken and enrich the book. Not deep by any standards, this book does have an amazing correlation to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Vince and Kendra, being the "star-crossed lovers," and their families of completely opposite backgrounds makes the book suspenseful and comical.
Rating:  Summary: Son Of The Mob Review: Vince Luca is is a 17 year old High School student and happens to have a family that is part of a Mob but Vince wants to different he wants to build a life for himself and not have to depend on his "family". And who would not want a best friend that wants to score through you and is around all the time. One thing seems to go right when Vince meets a girl from school at a party and ends up helping her to get away from a guy that has had to much to drink by telling him that Kendra is his girlfriend, but it turns out what Vince thought is what he need in life turned out to be a pain because Kendra's dad is an FBI agent who happends to be investigating Vince's father and his "vending machine" business and Vince can not be seen with Kendra in front of her father so they only see each other when they can be alone. This book is similar to a Romero and Juliet story with its own little twist. I recommed this book for High School students in the 11th and 12th grade..
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