Friend or Foe, Patrick Jones
Friend or Foe, Patrick Jones
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Friend or Foe

Author: Patrick Jones

Series: Unbarred

Narrator: Book Buddy Digital Media

Unabridged: 1 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lerner

Published: 01/01/2018


Synopsis

Do the crime, do the time behind bars. But once you've been in, it can be tough to stay out.

Ian's band is finally taking off. But the band's front man and Ian's best friend, Orlando, can't catch a break as a black kid in their white town. Tension with a security guard lands both Ian and Orlando in jail, and when Orlando is held indefinitely, someone will need to take over the band until he gets out. When Orlando chooses Chase, the band's bassist, to step in, Ian is slighted. As Ian's resentment builds, he plots his revenge. One by one, he turns his bandmates against one another, with tragic results. As Ian holds his friends close and his enemies closer, no one can tell which is which—until it's too late. This modern twist on Shakespeare’s Othello takes a gritty look at betrayal, revenge, and obsession.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robb

Good book for secondary reluctant readers. The chapters are short and the font is not your standard 12 Times Roman. The book begins with Ian being integrated for a crime we yet do not know. The following chapters takes you on a daily look at the events that lead up to and after the crime. Ian was a......more

In this book there is a lot of backstabbing and that really irritated me.Esp. Ian.He was in the right to take over when Orlando wasn't there but the moves he made to try to get that title away from Chase were all devious and horrible to other peoples feelings.He really ruined a lot of things that co......more

Goodreads review by Ashley

The novel Friend or Foe is part of the Unbarred series of novels (also by Jones) which are modern-day retellings of some of Shakespeare’s best plays. This novel in particular is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Othello. Instead of a plot revolving around racism, jealousy, love, and betrayal within cha......more