Ms. Hen reviews The Kid Mobster

The Kid Mobster

Michael Decicco

2017

Ms. Hen decided to read this novel, because she met the author at an event, and he found out she wrote reviews, and he gave her his book. She likes reading young adult novels at times, as her readers know, so she decided to try out this book.

This novel is about a high school senior named Eddie who works as a courier for a company that services banks. He is saving money for college, but he decides he needs to make more money. He starts to work at a call center for a man named Mederick, and his business raises money for the police and fire departments.

Eddie works with a group of strange people, and his ex-girlfriend's sister, Ruth. They call people and try to make money. The office moves to a different location, and Eddie doesn't understand what is going on, because he is young, and nobody spells it out for him in the beginning. Mederick is part of the mob, and the people who surround him are shady.

One of the good aspects of this novel is the character's voices. They sound like the low-down wise guys that are on TV about mobsters. Ms. Hen could hear what the characters were saying, and she knows what these people are like. These are the types of people that Ms. Hen stays away from, wheelers and dealers, and the kind that will crush a person if they get in their way.

But the character Eddie is too innocent and unbelieving to accept that his coworkers are scumbags. He almost succumbs to their depths, but he learns his lesson, that if something seems too good to be true, he should beware.

Ms. Hen likes to look for chickens or eggs when she reads a book, and there is a place where the characters eat eggs, or would like to, "Heading their way, I felt angry, and I drooled as I passed a case full of rich-looking cakes and pies and booths with steaming plates of bacon and eggs and pancakes..." Ms. Hen always thinks that eggs are enticing, and even though Eddie could not afford breakfast that day, she knew he enjoyed eggs when he could. Mederick was not kind to Eddie, who should have known better, but mafia types are not nice people, no matter how much they have, they want more, and they will do whatever they can to get it.

Ms. Hen enjoyed this novel. It is not her usual cup of tea, but she likes to dive into different types of worlds sometimes. She can imagine this novel as a TV show, with the wise guys cracking at each other. Everyone has to learn life lessons somehow, and Ms. Hen believes Eddie will never make the mistakes again.