So excited to be kicking off the blog tour for Debra Coleman Jeter's The Ticket - Today you will be able to see my review, but be sure to following along #TheTicketTour on Twitter to see more reviews, excerts, features, and the tour wide giveaway for the next week!
Tray Dunaway longs to be part of the popular set at school, but she's growing too fast and her clothes no longer fit. The only person who understands Tray's need for acceptance is her grandmother, but when Tray wears Gram's hand-sewn clothes to school, the kids make fun of her tall, boney appearance.
Tray's luck improves when Pee Wee Johnson, a down-and-out friend of her father's, buys two lottery tickets and gives one to Mr. Dunaway as a thank-you for driving him to Hazard, Illinois. When her father's ticket turns out to be the winner, Johnson demands his cut of the proceeds. Tray's dad refuses.
What seems like a stroke of good fortune quickly becomes a dangerous game of life and death for Tray and her family.
My Review:
*I was provided this book in exchange for sharing my review*Tray wants to fit in at school, but it doesn't exactly go as planned. Her life changes when a lottery ticket her father was gifted turns out to be a winner, but it instantly makes her family a target.
The author really drew me in with the story and I was left rather sad it was over. I loved that it was a really entertaining read for me, because it's often hard to find YA books that I find appealing to me, a guy, most seem to be targeted towards teen girls lately so the fact that it's appealing to both genders is a big plus for me and one of the driving reasons I've chosen to award this book a 5 star read, coupled with the fact that it's extremely well written and the story took me places I honestly wasn't expecting. I'll be telling my friends about this book, I think it's one that a lot of them will love.
Thanks, Chase. When I wrote The Ticket, I was hoping it would appeal to both genders and lots of age groups. So it is gratifying to find that it seems to be doing just that. If you check out the reviews on Amazon, it's interesting that quite a few of them are from males.
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