The book Dreadlocks by Neal Shusterman is about a boy named Parker that is 15 and encounters and interacts with a 15 year girl named Tara. Who is actually over 1,000 years old! She has this effect on people that is very strange. And how they met is ever stranger. They met in Parkers bedroom! She gave the idea to Parker that nothing is yours! So she slept there, kinda like Goldie Locks. And the way she turns people to stone is way more creepier. When she meets people she stares at them (this is how she does it) after that she takes off her shades and gives them a look. A few hours after that happens they get paler, weaker, drink a lot of milk, and they eat dirt! After this goes on for about a week they turn to ... STONE! But Parker doesn’t quite notice until he got the gift to turn people into stone from her.
This book was so interesting for me. [Spoiler Alert] I liked the conflict in the story when Parker was so hungry to turn something living to stone, that he actually turned on this best friend and turned him into stone! After this happens his best friend later gets sick and eventually ... dies.
The book was also a definite page turner. The reason I believe this is because it gave such detail and a lot of events and conflicts. Also because every chapter was a fresh start. The chapter were short , so I read about 6 chapters a day and I finished the book in 3 days.
I would recommend this book to people who love mythology and love to read spin offs. I would recommend it to these people because this book is a pretty cool spin off Medusa’s life, also because it talks a lot about her life in ancient Greek. I would read more books like this because it just seems more interesting than the books I use to read and because it is a series s I can continue reading these type of books.
Reviewed by Yinka ~ 6th Grade
Lexile 710
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