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A review by kricketa
Efrain's Secret by Sofia Quintero
3.0
efrain knows better than to help his friend nestor deal drugs, but he needs money for an SAT prep class. he dreams of going to harvard, and it wouldn't hurt to help out his family and spoil his new girlfriend, candace, a little bit. but at what risk does he take this job?
i liked this better than i expected. i imagined a different, preachier ending and what happened was a welcome surprise. however, i never understood what the big deal about harvard was for efrain. it was never fleshed out why he wanted to go to that school so badly. i mean, to some degree, every teen would probably LIKE to go to harvard, but beyond that, what drove him to do something so idiotic? oh well. i enjoyed all the characters of efrain's family & classmates, thought they were well-done.
i liked this better than i expected. i imagined a different, preachier ending and what happened was a welcome surprise. however, i never understood what the big deal about harvard was for efrain. it was never fleshed out why he wanted to go to that school so badly. i mean, to some degree, every teen would probably LIKE to go to harvard, but beyond that, what drove him to do something so idiotic? oh well. i enjoyed all the characters of efrain's family & classmates, thought they were well-done.