The first book that I read was Son of the Mob by Korman, Gordon. It was published by Hyperion Books for Children in the year 2004. I chose this book because it seemed like a good book to sit back on the beach and read. It also sounded like an easy read that would still be good. While discussing it with a few classmates, I learned that it was definitely a good book and had it recommended to me.
The main character of Son of the Mob is seventeen year old Vince Luca. Vince is a mafia prince and feels that his families doings mess with many of the factors in his life. First, while Vince was at the beach with the girl that he liked, he goes to the trunk of his car to get a blanket only to find a half dead man wrapped in it. Next, him and his best friend since grade school, Alex, join their schools football team as the bench warmers. During the teams first game they were losing so badly that Coach Bronski figured that there was nothing to lose by putting Vince in. Minutes after Vince comes out onto the field, he makes two touchdowns, and as the next play was being set up he hears the other team whispering to each other about who his father was. Vince than realizes why the opposing teams defense wouldn’t touch him. At the end of the quarter he quit the team. The next incident occurs when Vince and Alex go to a frat party where Vince hooks up with his schools newspaper reporter, Kendra Bightly. The next day he learns that Kendra’s father is the FBI agent who is investigating Vince’s father. The two start dating, avoiding one another’s parents. Further into the book, Kendra finds FBI pictures taken of Vince while he was making a trade with two shady characters which she thought had something to do with the mob. She leaves Vince, and he becomes desperate to get her back. Which he does. These are just a few of the reasons that Vince finds that the mob life isn’t for him.
Another main character was Anthony Luca. Father to Vince, Tommy, and Mira, wife of their mother, and...