Drop [Paperback]

Lisa Papademetriou (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc (2008)
• ASIN: B002PNJ5UQ
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,496,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lisa Papademetriou is the author of Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me (named one of the Best Books of 2005 by FamilyFun.com ) and co-author (with Chris Tebbetts) of M or F? She has written and/ or adapted over thirty books for children and young adults, including titles in the Lizzie McGuire, That s So Raven, Kim Possible, and Sweet Valley High Senior Year book series. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband, where she enjoys quilting, dancing around the house to eighties music, playing the guitar (badly), and drinking large amounts of coffee. Her next book, The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey will be published in May 2006.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Anti-climatic, September 6, 2010

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This review is from: Drop (Hardcover)

Drop starts out being the story of three different teens, Sanjay, Jerrica and Kat. Sanjay has a gambling problem and needs money to pay off his debts. Kat's mother is up for parloe and she needs money to get her and her sister out of town. Jerrica is either psychic or psychotic, she get visions of swirling patters that represent numbers. By using these visions Jerrica can predict which number the roulette wheel will land on. Jerrica, Sanjay and Kat frequent the casinos in order to get fast money.

While the premise is intriguing and the plot moves along nicely, there are many subplots that never come to fruitation. For example, who is it that beats up Sanjay and steals their money? Is Jerrica suicidal? Does Kat get back with Mike? We never find out the answers to these questions.

The climax is good as an individual scene, but as a climax to the whole book...well it isn't. We find out that Jerrica has pretty much nothing in her notebook, everyone thinks she is just crazy and they put off all their winings to coincidence. Then that's it for Jerrica. We never find out if she is suicidal, if she's crazy, or what happens to her after the climax (other than the fact that she places one last bet so we know it was not all coincidence). The ending makes the book seem to be about Kat who up till the end was in the perifery. Sanjay gets off easy with his dad, working off the debt in the family store. No rehab or anything. You'll find no public service announcements here.

Good book, but get it at the library.