Unhooking The Moon By Gregory Hughes

This book is a very sad book. So, if you’re the more emotional kind of person please do me a favour and keep a pack of tissues with you before you start reading. It all started in the small town of Winnipeg, Canada, where two kids Robert and Wazhashnoons (Bob and Rat) lived with their father (sadly their mother died in a car crash). They were like a normal family going to school and office, making friends and dancing to the latest rap music of the latest rapper, Ice. One thing about Rat was not normal -- she could make crazy predictions and she used to have fits which included spasms, saliva dripping from her mouth, etc. One day, she predicts that their dad is going to die (and her predictions are accurate because she once predicted that something bad would happen to her friend Felicia and the next day they came to know that Felicia had been strangled. Once, she predicted their dog was going to run away and the next day the dog was gone, it had left at night).

The day of Bob and Rat’s school play their dad did not attend the play and when they returned home -- lo and behold! Their dad was dead on the kitchen floor.

Bob and Rat didn’t break into tears because they weren’t the emotional type. Now they had to plan a trip to New York where they would find their uncle (Bob only agreed to the trip because he didn’t want to be put in a home). So, they started off by train to Toronto and started cycling their way to the American border. Now, Bob and Rat are on a trip where they make new friends like Tommy the hustler, Ice the rapper etc. On the way, they made a friend called Joey – a drug dealer – who took them to New York and promised Bob and Rat that he would return in a day or two after finishing his work, but Rat is eventually caught by the police and taken to a home.

So, now Bob, Joey, Tommy and Ice go to rescue Rat in New Jersey (where her home is). It turns out that the home is a very dangerous one and Ice and Tommy get badly hurt in a fight. Joey has found out about Bob and Rat’s uncle, who is the head of a company called Exocome. When they try to enter the office building the guards stop them and don’t believe that Bob and Rat are the nephew and niece of their boss, Jerome Debiller. So, Joey, Bob and Rat have to force their way in and Joey gets shot by a guard. Joey tells Bob and Rat to go on and find their uncle. Eventually, they find their uncle but at the same time Rat falls into psychological shock.

Bob is sixteen now and Ice was sentenced to six years in prison, Tommy and Joey are in hospital.

This book is actually very sad though in this review it may not seem so sad. This book is confusing, it’s hilarious and sad at the same time and that’s why this book is a good one and has become one of my favourites. But I think the author should not write such a such a sad book.