LitPick Review
"Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series" is the story of
Stevie Thomas, a freshmen in high school who also happens to
be a world-class reporter. He and his girlfriend, Susan
Carol Anderson, are asked to cover the World Series for the
Washington Post and Washington Herald. When they get there,
they learn the story of Norbert Doyle: a 30-something rookie
pitcher who's wife died in a fatal car accident years
earlier. He pitches well in his first Major League start and
he's suddenly the story of the series. But Stevie and Susan
Carol find out there's more to Doyle's story than he's
letting on. What could it be?
Opinion:
This book was not as good as I hoped it would be. I had read the three books preceding
this one (Last Shot, Vanishing Act, and Cover-Up) and they
were all fantastic! This one, however, was disappointing.
Several choices the author made concerning the story and the
characters were unpleasant and unnecessary. Eventually,
everything worked out, but it seemed as if the author was
attempting to make a secondary conflict carry the entire
story, which made it fairly boring and tedious. I would
still recommend this, but it is important to know that the
first 100 pages are extremely unpleasant to
read.
