Tangerine Part 3

What an ending to the book and maybe a beginning to a new story.

Where should I start.... Well I begin with the beginning of the end for Paul Fisher. Paul and his partner in crime murdered Luis Cruz seemed to only to be a small part to who Paul Fisher was. We learn that he was the one of the people stealing from the houses. He was the one responsible for Eric Fisher's sight problem's. Then he gets beat up at his football banquet. It seems that Paul Fisher is the all-american football star that many people thought he was (I told you in my first blog that there had to a problem with the star of the football team being the kicker). I guess I was right that there had to something wrong with Paul Fisher.

However, this epic story needs a second part. I almost has a soap opera quality to it. I am so wrapped up in life's of Paul, Eric, the rest of the Fishers, and the people around Tangerine that I need to see what happens next. Will Paul go to jail, what will happen with Eric at the new school, what else is going to happen in crazy Tangerine. Where is the second part to this book?

Since I don't know if there is a second part of the book I decided to blog about the overall book no that I have completed it. As I read the book, I always felt there was a a great deal of information to keep track of. A number of different stories go on all at the same time. Then, half way through the book I lost those feeling and another feeling took over. That being of almost a need to know what was going to happen next. There was so many elements to the story, that by the third part I couldn't stop reading until I found out what happened in the end.

I must say I was disappointed in the second part of the book. The author did a great job setting up a plot with the soccer players from the school getting suspended because Paul Fisher "ratted" on them. With Paul Fisher changing schools and becoming friends with those soccer players he told on I thought was going to have an interesting event in the second part of the book. However, the author seemed to dismiss the point when Paul told the players that he was the reason that they had been suspended. Then it seemed to be forgotten. The author of the book seemed to put a great deal of emphasis on showing how tough these soccer players were. Then when the time came for a reason for them to get really angry at events they seemed to take a very weird stance on the situation. It almost seemed that they let Paul Fisher get away with "ratting" on them. With the way the author spent so much time writing about the toughness of the soccer players at Tangerine Middle School, the reaction and the retribution to Paul Fisher would have been different.

Tangerine

Is this the craziest place on earth. Lets start to my first reaction to the book. I always had the thought of a football star in school as a quarterback, linebacker, or some other position,I never thought of the football star being the kicker. I my mind I thought of the kicker on a football team as an important part. However, the star no. If the star of this football team is the kick, then I has to seriously wonder about how this football team will perform in the rest of the book.

The next bit of new is the the lightening strike the kills a football player and student at the school. Then the next day everything goes on as nothing ever happened. I wonder what would happen at a school around Rochester if a student was struck by lightening while playing a sport. I know that there would be no sports or gym class for a while. They would not think of having practice again the next day.

Then the hole middle school is almost sucked into the middle of the earth by a sink hole and everyone is going on like it is not a big deal. The people in charge just decide to move some students and let others return to classrooms that almost were destroyed. I don't know about you but I only read the first part of this book and if this is where I lived, I would be trying to figure out how to find another place to live.