Book: Tricks
Author: Ellen Hopkins
This book can be found in the Contemporary section of the Saint library.
Initial Reaction
Wow, What an amazing book.
About this book
Trick is a book about 5 teens, 3 girls and 2 boys, who are
lacking love. They question themselves about love and sex when they come
across it. They meet people who made them feel special and thought they were in
love. They run away with them to Las Vegas. The teens then do things they never
thought or expected they would do. The people who they met weren't the people who they
thought they were, and they try to find a way out of these lives.
About the characters
"The first character I feel strongly about would be Ginger Cordell. She was a girl
who lived with her siblings, and her mom and grandma. She gets home from school
noticing that no one is home but some strange guy. One guy after another, they
rape her and say that they paid her mom already to do that to her.
The second one is Seth Parnel. He lives with his father
because his mom died of cancer. He had a girlfriend but broke up with her
because he realized he was gay. When his father finds out, he kicks him out. He
leaves and stays with a guy he met at the bar. They move to LA.
The third one is Eden Streit. She lives with her parents and
her sister. Her dad is a preacher. She has a boyfriend named Andrew. She tries to
keep it as a secret from her parents but they find out and believe that she
has been controlled by the devil and they send her to Tears of Zion. She meets a guy name
Jerome and knows that he is her key to escape. She has to trade sex for food.
Later on they escape, they get to a gas station and she then runs away. She gives sex for money."
My opinion
I would recommend this book to other students because it tells you the struggle some teens have in
life. They met people who weren't the people who they think they were.
I think the author chose "Tricks" for this book
because it is about teens that are learning about love and come across the wrong
people who they thought they "loved". These people who they met made
them feel the love and want but really they trick them for their bodies.
Reviewed by a student from Mrs. Daughtrey's class.