But when Tina is caught by Greyhill’s son, Michael, they agree that Tina won’t expose Greyhill until after Michael helps her find out if he is the actual killer. With the help of the Goondas, Tina plotted to break into the home of Greyhill. Tina thrives as a thief with the “Goonda” gang, but stereotypically wants revenge on a grey-haired Roland Greyhill, a business fraud who she believes shot her mother. “City of Saints and Thieves” follows the story of Tina, a teenage girl living alone on the streets in Sangui after her mother was murdered four years prior.
While the unique setting - in the urban city of Sangui, Kenya - successfully did this, the blunt writing style made me feel like I was reading at a middle school level.
I hoped it would distract me from the stressors of college applications. In the midst of a reading rut, I turned to the Barnes and Noble best seller list to get me away from exclusively reading “Jane Eyre” and metaphors about heavy high school work loads in “College Essays that Worked.” Since I haven’t read a mystery since I was reading the “Nancy Drew” books in elementary school, young adult mystery “City of Saints and Thieves” by Natalie C.
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