A houdini & Nate mystery, Shots At Sea

       The title of the book I am reading is A Houdini & Nate Mystery, written by Tom Lalicki. In this story, there are 2 boys that are in a boat called the Lithuania. Their names are Nate and Houdini. 

They think that the boat is going smoothly on the ocean but they are not right. There is a murderer on the boat. This murderer tried to kill the president and failed, but the boys know that murderers do not give up. These boys go and have to inform the president immediately before the murderer reaches him before them. They have some trouble finding the president in this boat but in the end they find him. They protect him with body guards but this will not stop the murderer from reaching the president! They have to find him and when they do, be extremely careful because murderers do not want to get caught so they have to prepare for a chase. 

I thought that this story started to get a little more interesting since the start because at the start I was really bored because I had no idea what was going on. This week I read 60 pages. That means that over all I read 155 pages/ 203 including the author’s note. The conflict In this novel is Man vs Man because there are 2 boys vs a murderer, or if it is in the murderer’s point of view then it is Man vs. Society because he is trying to hide the fact that he is a murderer from everyone else on the boat. People who are involved in this situation are the security guard in the boat, the president, the murderer, Houdini, Nate, and the dog as you see in the picture to the left. 

I think this will be solved when the murderer attempts to murdered the president the second time and he will fail because people will be spying on the president while he sleeps and looking at people who goes near him, another possibility of the ending might be that he will admit when everybody is suspicious that he is the murderer.

I would give this book a 8.2/10 because it could be a little more exciting.