Fake ID: The Hunted

I liked Fake ID. It was a good mystery. Chastity Pureheart and her mother have been on the run as long as Chass can remember. With each new town, there is a stop at the library where new names are selected based on characters from a fiction book. Chastity is now in high school and is tired of running. When her mother disappears, Chass must figure out what to do; does she run like she always has, this time on her own, or does she stay and try to figure out where her mother went and why they've always been on the run. The story is pretty straight forward with enough action to keep the reader involved. Fake ID is the first book in a series about Chastity and her mother called Hunted.

Fake ID by Walter Sorrells is a very good book because it has very suspenseful items in it. "Chass" and her mother often move from city to city and she never really thought about why they did till her mother disappears. While Chass is trying to find her mother she is also solving a murder and trying to find her identity while falling in love with her best friend. The town is turning against her and she is soon on her own,so she thinks. Chass has one person on her side but he is a big Asian man who is always stalking her so she thinks he is trying to kill her but he is really protecting her from the real person who is.

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Every once and awhile, I pick up a book that has such a fast-moving story that it is hard to put down. Fake ID was that kind of book for me. Chastity Pureheart moves around a lot with her mom. When they move to a new town they go into the local library and pick a new name--her mom runs her finger along the spines of the books until Chastity says stop. When they moved to High Hope, Alabama, that's when the new name of Chastity Pureheart came to be. What are they hiding from? Why isn't Chastity allowed to listen to music? Why do they always keep their belongings packed and ready by the front door? And now, what has happened to her mom? She's missing and someone is after Chastity. The mysteries just keep piling up, sort of like show more the bones found in the house where Chastity's mom's car was found. Fake ID is book one in the Hunted series by Walter Sorrells. show less

I received this book as a member giveaway. It is the story of a teen girl who has spent her whole life moving from town to town, never with the same identity. And when her mom goes missing, she works to find her not really knowing who she herself is. This is a fast paced, easy read. Kind of unrealistic in some parts- which I had a hard time with as a good mystery for me is one that is well written but still believable enough. Sorrels did a great job developing the story line however I felt like the ending was rushed. Overall I would classify this as a pretty good read especially for a young adult who likes mysteries.

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

Chastity Pureheart is a girl without a past. Everything about her is a fabrication, including her name. Along with her mother, Chass has spent as long as she can remember moving from one place to another with only a moments notice. She has her routine down pat--suitcase packed and ready to go at the front door at all times, hop in the quiet car and drive to where her mother has pointed to with her eyes closed on the map, stop at a library to draw a book of the shelves and choose a new name.

Chass has no idea why her and her mother are on the run. Her mother has never said a word about who her father is, or what she did before the running started, or why she hates music so passionately. All Chass knows show more is that they've been in High Hopes, Alabama, for three years now, and their lives are as normal as they've ever been. That is, normal until her best friend, Ben, buys her a guitar for her sixteenth birthday, and things go downhill fast.

First, Chass has to admit to her mother her love--no, obsession--with playing music, writing music, and singing. She knows it hurts her mother; after all, this is the same lady who doesn't even turn on the radio in the car when they're driving. But Chass can't hold her love of music in any longer, and her mother storms out of the house in a huff--and disappears off the face of the earth.

Suddenly, everyone is looking into the life of Chastity Pureheart and her mother a little too closely. For too people who have spent years avoiding public scrutiny, their lives are now under a microscope. She has a police chief treating her like a criminal, the parents of her best friend accusing her of all sort of mischief, and a mother that she's determined to find.

FAKE I.D. is a great mystery for all ages. Filled with action-adventure, a very believable mystery, and lots of thrilling twists and turns, you'll find yourself immersed in the life and times of Chass and her mother--and the reason for their life on the run. show less

I liked Fake ID. It was a good mystery. Chastity Pureheart and her mother have been on the run as long as Chass can remember. With each new town, there is a stop at the library where new names are selected based on characters from a fiction book. Chastity is now in high school and is tired of running. When her mother disappears, Chass must figure out what to do; does she run like she always has, this time on her own, or does she stay and try to figure out where her mother went and why they've always been on the run. The story is pretty straight forward with enough action to keep the reader involved. Fake ID is the first book in a series about Chastity and her mother called Hunted.

After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.