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Acceleration
Graham McNamee Random House Books for Young Readers © 2003 |
Duncan is a seventeen-year-old young adult living in an apartment complex known as the Jungle. His summer job is working for the Toronto Transit lost and found. It is not the best summer job and Duncan actually thinks it’s the most boring a job you can have. He thought this before he found a diary of psychopathic serial killer. Duncan debates ideas of turning in the book to the police station but decides it is his duty to track down this odd person. After reading further into the diary Duncan really finds out what kind of crazy person this is, from stalking women on a subway to hanging cats from trees. He studies the tendencies of serial killers and everything matches up with Roach, the name of the stalker. He traces the whole city to find where Roach lives with the help of his friends Wayne and Vinny. They became stalkers in their own right by following people home from the subway who they suspected as being Roach, but they find out the location of his house. Duncan finds the time when Roach leaves and breaks into his house. Upon Roach’s return he isn’t too happy to find Duncan in his basement.
Acceleration is suitable for readers from grades 7-12. The book was very interesting and you could really put yourself in the shoes of Duncan and the other supporting characters. It was a great book and probably one of the best I read. I just thought it had a great storyline and description of what the main character was thinking. I also thought it was very well organized from beginning to end. I would recommend for anyone to read this book it was magnificent!
~Dan Whaley, Grade 9, Lakeview High School