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Aaron is torn. He can either be a narc or be thrown into jail after he and his little sister are caught with drugs; he has to protect his sister and he doesn’t want to hurt his new friends, who are taking and dealing drugs. Working as an undercover teen narc, people are onto him. He’s in the midst of speculation and danger. I enjoyed the unique premise—I’ve never read a YA novel about narcs before—and I loved the Miami setting.


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Narc CrissaJean Chappell Books Reviews

When Aaron Foster is stopped for speeding and the cop finds a baggie with weed, Aaron's life takes a major turn . . . and not for the better. To keep from going to jail and making his mom's life more miserable than it already is, he agrees to become a narc. From then on the story is about Aaron's failure as both narc (at least for the most part) and as a boyfriend.

The writing is very strong. I was impressed by the cliche-free chapters that still managed to capture the teen voices. And I enjoyed some of the fresh images the author created.

I love contemporary, realistic fiction, so I came to this book with a slight bias, but Chappell still had to make be believe in her characters and she did. I felt for Aaron. I recognized his girlfriend, Morgan, and the girl named Skully--sad girls with everything and nothing.

The only thing I didn't like 100% was the pacing toward the end of the book. I felt it slowed and didn't build well, and was sorry that happened.
The title of this book is what attracted me to it the use of the word narc is bold and eye-catching. I'll admit that it also made me think of the film "21 Jump Street" although I did not expect much humor from this book based on the cover.

I was right to not expect much humor because if I had, I would have been disappointed. Instead we have the story of Aaron, coerced into informing about the top drug dealer at his school in exchange for leniency toward his sister (I was very uncomfortable with the way the cop used Aaron's underage sister in this situation and I hope that is atypical behavior for our police officers). Thus stoner and mostly invisible Aaron has to break out of his shell and get close to the power players who have been supplying the kids at his school.

My overwhelming feelings toward this book were a big fat MEH. I could not connect with Aaron and had trouble following some of the plot threads. Why was he hanging out with this person? How did Aaron know that she was involved? Is that really the next logical step in bringing down the drug ring? How is that person related to this situation? I'm still not entirely sure how everything came together and was startled to realize how close to the end I was without feeling ready for any kind of conclusion. I did feel a bit more interested at the end because the action became more intense but it also brought in some completely new characters who pushed the book in a different direction and did not erase my confusion.

I thought the book did a pretty good job of capturing Aaron's moral conflicts during his stint as a narc though. As he grows closer to some of the people they are targeting, he increasingly wants to protect them, seeing them as messed-up kids themselves who are in need of help and trying to balance that against protecting his own family. I just wish I had felt more interested in Aaron's situation.

Overall A book that failed to capture my interest; cannot recommend.

Cover The dark grime captures the seedy look into the underground drugs ring at the local high school.
When I first read about Narc in the Book Expo America Show Daily, I made a beeline for the Flux booth. With such an edgy premise, the rarer YA male protagonist, and a South Florida setting, I was itching to get my hands on a copy.

Unfortunately, the novel didn't resonate with me as I'd hoped.

I think my main issue was with the plausibility of the entire premise of Narc. Perhaps a teenage "narc" is, in fact, a method police utilize. However, the way that it was laid out, I couldn't believe it. Maybe I didn't have enough explanation, or maybe the deal is thrown on the table a bit too early and with too little provocation. Either way, it made the whole story difficult for me to believe or lose myself in the slightest bit.

There are also several elements that felt a bit anachronistic to me. Narc presumably takes place in the present-day, 2012 and Aaron use tools at his disposal like Facebook. But he refers to Facebook apps like Top Friends that are still technically around, but seldom used. When he sends Facebook IMs, they use screen names, which isn't how it works. There's also the fact that even "richer" students that Aaron hangs around with have phones without wifi, which is extremely commonplace these days.

I suppose that's the danger in relying so much on technology in exposition. There was so much of it and it was just outdated. It served no purpose but to distance me from the novel.

Further, Aaron's voice didn't ring true to me. He spends a lot of time composing unsent e-mails and sometimes events are so glossed over that I was left backtracking trying to figure out exactly what had just occurred.

Overall rating 2/5. Despite a promising premise, unfortunately, Narc just didn't feel real to me at any point.

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This was one of my beast reads in quite some time. I spent all day tangled up in the book, very intriguing yet not exactly happy
Aaron is torn. He can either be a narc or be thrown into jail after he and his little sister are caught with drugs; he has to protect his sister and he doesn’t want to hurt his new friends, who are taking and dealing drugs. Working as an undercover teen narc, people are onto him. He’s in the midst of speculation and danger. I enjoyed the unique premise—I’ve never read a YA novel about narcs before—and I loved the Miami setting.