A review by engpunk77
Carlos Is Gonna Get It by Kevin Emerson

2.0

I was hooked for a few chapters by the realistic teenage voice of the narrator. The hook then became a cattle prod because the narrator, like, keeps writing like that and I was just so, like, sick of both the plot and the narrator; I almost relinquished the book to my own discard pile several times. Instead of an actual interest in how the conflict would be resolved, I was propelled through this boring book by a desire to find out if Carlos's "aliens" were actually scabies or lice. I would have given this one star, but the ending was decent and portrayed 7th-grade interpersonal relationships & social issues pretty realistically.

If I could advise the author, I'd tell him that this would have made an amazing short personal narrative rather than a long, drawn-out novel.