The New Spy Kids

Authors note: I wrote this essay on I.Q. because it is a great action book. Along with the action there’s some mystery, surprising scenes, and a little secrecy to top it off.

What’s one terrorist attack that you remember? Most people would say that it was 9/11. In Roland Smith’s book I.Q. it seems like there are a lot more attempts not mentioned by the U.S. Angela’s mom was killed in a failed attempt to destroy the Independence Hall. The government covered it up, saying it was a gas explosion. During this book random things will occur and they surprise you. This book surprises anyone who reads it.

One thing people like in books is that they can really surprise you, which keeps them hooked throughout book. Within I.Q. there are some small surprise and some very big surprises. The small surprises are the little things that you don’t necessarily look forward to, but they keep you reading, like what the rebellious kids eat when their parents aren’t around. The big surprises are the ones that you look forward to and these may really put the book together at the moment or later in the book. These are the surprises people want, like how some of the characters in the book are not who you think they are.

Along with the action in this book it also delivers a little secrecy. The kids, Angela and Quest, keep small and big things from their parents. It’s not only Angela and Quest that keep secrets, it so happens that their driver, Boone, also keeps some pretty big secrets from everybody. Later on Angela and Q join in and they don’t tell their parents, because if they did they would cancel the tour. The secrets are pretty big and it’s a little unrealistic that the parents don’t find out.

There’s one thing that I didn’t like in the book which is when Angela, Quest, Boone, and all the other people they are with are at the warehouse, there was a bad guy right across the road. The warehouse is where they have their motor home.  The bad part was that they knew the bad guy was there and did nothing about it. They had a bad guy spying on them and they did nothing. What if she jumped out and started shooting everyone? I really disagreed with that part.

Not everyone is who they say they are. Sometimes when you find out what a certain person is really like under their walls of lies it may surprise you. You might have a great friend that you tell everything to and trust them with all your secrets and then he goes and tells everyone all your embarrassing secrets. The truth about some people can be very surprising. It may be how they act around other people or maybe when they talk about you behind your back. This book has a couple of those surprises and it definitely will keep you reading.

Deep In Deep Zone

Authors note: I wrote this essay on Deep Zone by Tim Green to prove to people why Tim Green is such a great sports writer.

What is the most surprising book you have ever read? Tim Green's book, Deep Zone., there are many surprises that keep your nose in the book. Tim Green, a retired NFL player, really creates exciting, suspenseful, and action packed sports novels. The author keeps the reader craving for more, never knowing what will happen next by creating unexpected surprises within this book.

If you’re a fan of Tim Green then you’ve read his two books Football Genius and Football Hero. In this book the two famous characters, Ty Lewis from Football Hero and Troy White from Football Genius, meet each other in this stunning novel. This is such a great idea, because many people have been awaiting sequels to both books. Many people love the fact that Tim Green is a great writer on and off the field. There’s almost a whole different story off the field or off the court and with those stories you will always be wanting more.

Tim Green can really write stunning books. Most sports book writers can’t write a very good action novel. In Deep Zone Ty is chased by gangsters who are hunting him down after his dad gave them up to the police. The other main character Troy is in search for his dad, and they both get kidnapped by the gang and Troy’s dad. A good handful of people probably pick up one of Tim Green’s books because of the cover. The cover of Tim Green’s books have sports freeze frames on it. This gets peoples attention if they like sports. Tim Green can really right a good sport and action book. It seems there’s almost three stories in this book.

The first story would obviously be the football games. The second story in the book would have to be Ty’s life outside of football, getting chased, protected by the FBI, and trying to contact his cousin Charlotte. The third one Is Troy looking for and thinking he sees his dad. You can never what’s going to happen next. A lot of people will be taken by surprise when they find out Mr. White actually is working with the gang that’s trying to get Ty. If you read a Tim Green book the saying “Never judge a book by it’s cover.”(Edwin Rolfe and Lester Fuller) really works, because you might think it’s a regular football story but it’s not. It has action in it too.

There is only one way that this book could’ve been better. Even though the idea of bringing these two great books together, Tim Green still only had Ty’s point of view. For the entire book everything was told through Ty’s eyes. There’s a book called Project 17 , by Laurie Faria Stolarz, where she took chapters and switched the point of views of the characters. There were about seven point of views in Project 17. This book could’ve been a little better if it had Troy’s point of view to know what he thought about things or just what he was doing. Even with that little flaw readers still recommend this book to their peers even if they don’t understand football all too much.

Even if you don’t know football that well you will probably be able to understand it a lot more in this book. Tim Green is good at making readers really understand what’s going on because he is a retired NFL defensive end drafted first round in 1986 by Atlanta Falcons, playing for seven years in the NFL, from 1986 to 1993. Since he had a lot of football experience he can really help the reader understand what is going on. The people that got this book because they heard about the good stories off the field can now know what is happening on the field.

Creating unexpected surprises in a book keeps the reader hooked throughout the novel because they never know what's going to happen next. Tim Green did a great job of creating suspense, not only on the field, but also off the field.