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Book Review of Shelter (Mickey Bolitar, Bk 1)

Shelter (Mickey Bolitar, Bk 1)
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Young Mickey has all the attributes an ideal teen needs, brains, looks and standing 6'4" at age 14, just a bit improbable, but hey, this is a novel for entertaining and appealing to the readers. However as a new kid in town, a loner living with his estranged uncle, Mickey doesn't have the friendship circle many teens have ...but the adventures and mishaps push him in with other loners and they form a solid group/team which will probably be involved in future mysteries and action adventures to come.
Mickey acts and reacts, somewhat uncharacteristically, like a young adult as he digs into sordid events, his missing friend and other disappearing young women, and also seeks the truth of his own parents' past. Circumstances seem to very coincidentally fall together so he succeeds. That said, it was a fun if rather improbable read.