{"id":7405,"date":"2023-11-15T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T01:48:36","slug":"three-drops-of-blood-teen-book-revew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2023\/three-drops-of-blood-teen-book-revew\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Drops of Blood &#8211; Teen Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jasmine Sov, age 17<\/p>\n<h2><strong><i>Three Drops of Blood <\/i>by <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Gretchen McNeil&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Gretchen McNeil<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When a behind-the-scenes scandal derails 17-year-old Kate\u2019s acting career, she\u2019s determined to get back on track. But it\u2019s not that easy\u2014she\u2019s implicated in the scandal, her agent only sends her out for stereotypical \u201cfat girl\u201d parts, and her parents insist that she start paying rent to prove that she doesn\u2019t have to go to college and can support herself as a professional actress. To pay her rent, Kate takes a tedious office job at her friend\u2019s family law firm. There, she files papers and distracts herself by watching the people in the next building over. At first, it\u2019s amusing\u2014she sees an executive and her assistant having a passionate affair. But then the affair becomes a double murder, with Kate as the only witness. No one will believe her without bodies or evidence, so she decides to find clues herself. Can Kate bring the truth to light, or will she be the murderer\u2019s next target?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree Drops of Blood&#8221; advertises itself as a \u201cvoyeuristic thriller filled with twists and turns\u201d, but it does not live up to its claims. The first half of the book is more of a coming-of-age novel that focuses on Kate\u2019s acting career and conflicts with her parents, agent and another young actress. Kate\u2019s determination to make it in Hollywood was interesting to read about, especially when it affected her relationships with those around her. However, these plot points wane around the middle, when the story abruptly shifts to a dark, fast-paced thriller. From then on, Kate\u2019s acting pursuits are lost in a convoluted race to find evidence and not get killed. The murder plot ends up having a link to the earlier chapters, but the connection felt weak and contrived. \u201cThree Drops of Blood\u201d shows promise with its realistic fiction half, but fails to deliver with its own genre.<\/p>\n<p>1.5 stars<\/p>\n<p>Find this book in our catalog:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pasadena.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/default\/search\/detailnonmodal\/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:417005\/one\"><em>Three Drops of Blood<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catalog Number: <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;YA M MCNEIL,G&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">YA M MCNEIL,G<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:336}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">336<\/span> pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jasmine Sov, age 17 Three Drops of Blood by Gretchen McNeil When a behind-the-scenes scandal derails 17-year-old Kate\u2019s acting career, she\u2019s determined to get back on track. But it\u2019s not that easy\u2014she\u2019s implicated in the scandal, her agent only sends her out for stereotypical \u201cfat girl\u201d parts, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":7408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,54],"tags":[166,184,185],"class_list":["post-7405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-teen-reviews","tag-family","tag-murder","tag-stereotypes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/threedropsofblood-bookishlifeofkels.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-1Vr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6724,"url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2022\/the-marvelous-mirza-girls-teen-book-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":7405,"position":0},"title":"The Marvelous Mirza Girls \u2014 Teen Book Review","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"January 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Review by Cadence Chen, 17 The Marvelous Mirza Girls\u00a0By Sheba Karim Noreen is a teenager haunted by grief due to her aunt\u2019s recent death. 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