Blood+Is+Thicker

By: Sydney

I recently read the book __Blood is Thicker__, by Paul Langan & D.M. Blackwell. I really got into this book. I really liked this book because I enjoy the genre realistic fiction. But that’s not the only reason I liked this book. I also thought that it had a great terrific story to it. It was all about knowing blood is thicker, which means that no matter what family should and does mean more then any other thing to you. I personally perfer the types of books that have a point to them and during the story is trying to get to something and not just solve a problem. To begin the story starts off with this kid named Hakeem whose father has cancer. Tradgically this family was forced to move out of their house financially, in other words they had to go somewhere cheaper and more affordable. They end up going to their relative’s house. When they get there Hakeem has to put up with leaving his old school, leaving his friends, his father having cancer, and his no good for anything cousin. While he is slowing adjusting to the dragstic changes he relizes that his cousin and uncle don’t get along at all. Until Hakeem found out what is really going on with his cousin. The story is continuing on to unravel, solving all problems that occured in the begining of the story. This reminded me of life in gerneral because problems happen all the time and they are finding solutions to them.

Two main characters are Hakeem and Savon. Hakeem is a respectful, do what hes told type of guy. One the other hand his cousin Savon is a im the one to be respected, do what he wants to do type of guy. Without a doubt putting those two people together with completely different personalities would create a outstanding story. In fact if you think about it two different people like that cause a bunch of conflicts which would tell a better story.

I would highly recomend this book to people who are into real life senarios. Again I would like to say i can't stress how good and much i enjoyed this book. I feel alot of other people would feel the same way is they took the time to read __Blood Is Thicker__, by Paul Langan & D.M. Blackwell. This book is also a book from the series Bluford High and the whole series is impressive.