Big John and the Fortune Teller

Name: Big John and the Fortune Teller
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Duke Tate
ISBN: 9781664945685

Author: Duke Tate

Series: Big John #1

Narrator: Andrew Rowe

Unabridged: 2 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Pearl Press

Published: 06/19/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy

Synopsis

Los Angeles.Fifteen-year-old Big John Hoover has strange tingly hands and an unstoppable appetite.But when he learns his dream girl could never love a 258-pound teenager, he wanders into a psychic shop in Venice searching for the secret to her heart. And though he’s skeptical when the mystical madam has him draw the fit body he desires, he’s stunned to wake the next day ripped and handsome.Despite his hunky new form snagging him high-paying modeling gigs and the most popular chick in school, he’s certain there must be more to life than being impossibly buff. And when the fortune teller returns to reveal why he feels so weird inside, he discovers he possesses a unique healing destiny that paints a deadly target on his back.Can this remade guy survive unwanted lethal attention?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen on March 11, 2021

I won this book in a goodreads drawing. Big John is a 15 year old kid struggling with his weight. He's got a crush on his neighbor. When he goes to a fortune teller, she casts a spell that allows him to become fit in a day. From there, he has some adventures, gains some powers, and meets a woman. Pret......more

Goodreads review by Genevieve on June 19, 2020

what did I just read? That was... something. It read like the kind of thing I would have written in the 9th grade, only with way better grammar and a weirdly spiritual bent. That's the best way I can think to describe it. It was a ride, that's for sure! It was maybe a half hour read, but in that time......more

Goodreads review by gordon musgrave on November 26, 2020

Readable Strange book !! Maybe it's for California teenager but no one else? I'm any case got to about a third of the way they but could not keep going!! If the writer has made the character likable then maybe it would have been so I but as it is the main character was a spoiled rich kid!!......more