Mr.+Rios

Mr. Rios and His Book Review


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Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a cat or a dog? Well Matteo Alacran knows, but there is one small difference. Matt is not a cat or a dog, he is worse than those he is a CLONE! The book the "house of the SCORPION" by Nancy Farmer is a book of adventure, horror, sadness, mystery, morals, and some love. I would highly recommend it.

At the beginning of the book, Matt is a small child and lives with his keeper Celia. After eight long years El Patron’s great great great grandchildren and their frinds finally discover him. once discovered he is taken to the "Big House" were he is taken care of for the wounds he got from being discovered, but once the doctor found out he was a clone he was locked up for four years. Finally, El Patron, the person he was cloned after found out the way they were treating him and came to the rescue. El patron is a rich drug lord that made Matt so if he were to pass away any time soon he would have Matt. El Patron is 148 years old and counting. Throughout Matt’s years, he meets the scum of the Alacran family. The family hates mate and wishes for him to be out of site and dead because he is a clone but because they are, Alacran's they are descendants from El Patron and since El Patron has tons of cash he decides if they can do anything as he technically owns them. While in living in the house, he becomes companions with El Patron's Bodyguard Tam Lin. Tam Lin is required to guard Matt. Tam Lin is what I consider Matt’s conscience as he can relate a lot to Matt. He grew up in Ireland and dropped out of school. Tam Lin try's to encourage him to learn and be as well educated as possible and not make the same mistakes as him. He also plays an important role by showing Matt the secret oasis where Matt latter goes. The finally friend Matt has is Senator Mendoza's Daughter Maria. When Maria First met, Matt was when he was hidden and while he was locked up she was his only companion, but Mr. Mendoza disapproves of Maria hanging around with matt. Soon enough Matt gets a big head and forces her to kiss him which starts there forbidden love.

In the book Matt and the Alacran family are like trapped rats in the since, they can not leave opium. Opium is the long stretch of a country in which separates Mexico and the USA. This land was created when El Patron met with the leaders of the united states and Mexico and told them that him and all the other drug lords would stop selling drugs to the united states and Mexico and the drug lords would keep illegal immigrants from passing the border if each country would give up a little bit of land each.

In the end, I would highly recommend this book for all readers. This book is filled with surprises that will shock you and battles of people that will amaze you. If you enjoy reading books of realistic fiction then "the house of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer is for you.