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The Last Chance Texaco (2000)

by Brent Hartinger(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: Lucy is a troubled orphan now living in a group home called Kindle, which is nicknamed The Last Chance Texaco since it’s the last stop before Rabbit Island. The island is for teens who are beyond help. Kindle Home is actually pretty neat with the counselors and other caretakers, but Lucy encounters the group home bully, Joy, and classmates at school who look down on “groupies.” These antagonists place Lucy in quite a few compromising positions. When a rash of car fires happens in the area, people are pointing fingers at the group home teens. Lucy doesn’t want Kindle to close its doors because of the reputations of the inhabitants. If Kindle shuts down, she’ll be headed to Rabbit Island, aka Eat-Their-Young-Island, which she’s adamantly against. She sets out to ... morefind who’s setting these fires. There are a few suspects who either dislike Lucy or Kindle overall. Hartinger developed an interesting cast of characters in both the teens and adults. Also, the mounting suspense and mystery had me on the edge of my seat.
review 2: I think I got this one free on Amazon. Usually that sentence means it sucked. Not this one, though. I rather enjoyed it. It was very short and didn't take long at all to read. There wasn't a whole lot to the story, but despite that, the characters felt rather fleshed out. I liked how Lucy had all these expectations about how the counselors were going to be and most of them turned out to completely wrong. In a lot of YA and Juvenile fiction, the adults are all absurd caricatures of real people, but not in this book. I would have liked to have a little more depth to the actual story, but overall, this was pretty satisfying. less

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