Book Review: Crusader by Edward Bloor
Reviewed by Zenn Wong, 14
Y.O! blogger
This book revolves around the life of 15 year old Roberta Ritter, with a deceased mother of an unsolved murder case. Left to fend for herself by her negligent father, Roberta longs to escape the routine humdrum of life working at an arcade with games fraught with violence and racism. She plunges into an investigation of hate crimes in her neighbourhood mall, and in the process uncovers some appalling facts about her well-loved mother and how she died. Through painstaking and careful investigation, the truth is finally exposed to her -and her alone- that her mother’s murderer was the person she least suspected - her own father; her mother’s husband. This novel of twists and turns in all directions is a chilling, yet oddly thrilling story of facing the truth and standing up for yourself.
Title: Crusader
Author: Edward Bloor
San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999.
Call No.: Y English BLO
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