The Lure, by Lynne Ewing
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From bestselling author Lynne Ewing comes a gritty, sexy novel perfect for fans of books like Perfect Chemistry—about a teen forced to become a "lure," a beautiful girl used by her street gang to seduce and entrap rival gang members.
The Lure tells the story of fifteen-year-old Blaise Montgomery, who lives on the dangerous outskirts of Washington, DC, where a stray bullet can steal a life on the way to school and death lurks around every corner. Drugs and violence are the only ways to survive, so Blaise and her friends turn to gangs for safety, money, and love. And when Blaise is accepted into one of the toughest gangs in the city, she's finally part of a crew. A family.
But as Blaise is put in increasingly dangerous situations, particularly as her gang's newest lure, she begins to see there's more to lose than she ever realized. Should Blaise continue to follow the only path she's ever known, or cut and run?
The Lure, by Lynne Ewing - Amazon Sales Rank: #305086 in Books
- Brand: Ewing, Lynne
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Released on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .65" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
The Lure, by Lynne Ewing From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—Blaise and her friends do not think any further than surviving high school-literally. Their low-income neighborhood in Washington, DC is controlled by rival gangs. The only way most teens have a chance at making it is to join one of these crews. Blaise is tough and chooses to undergo a brutal hazing ritual to fight her way into Core 9, but Melissa decides to get in through the "rollins" process-a throw of the dice determines how many guys she will have to have sex with to join. Blaise feels powerful at first and enjoys the extra money membership affords, but becomes desperate to escape as she sees Trek, the group's leader, abusing Melissa; witnesses the needless death of an 11-year-old boy; and gets "promoted" to the role of "lure"-bait to track down enemy gang members. Fairly true to the gritty reality of urban organized crime and violence, the ending, however, wraps up too quickly and perfectly, and readers will have to suspend disbelief to completely accept it. Place this fast-paced novel in collections where realistic urban fiction is popular. For fans of Allison van Diepen's Snitch (S & S, 2007) and Greg Takoudes's When We Wuz Famous (Holt, 2013).—Suanne B. Roush, Osceola High School, Seminole, FL
From Booklist Joining the Core 9 gang should offer Blaise protection from the drug deals, guns, and violence in her Washington, D.C., neighborhood, which borders three rival gangs. When she is asked by Core 9’s head gangbanger to dress sexily to lure enemy gang members to revenge beatings, however, she knows she is in danger. Blaise is a fighter with a “gangster sixth sense” for avoiding trouble, but even she is not sure she will make it out of high school alive. Ewing describes gritty and, unfortunately, all-too-realistic scenes in which poverty, fear, and self-preservation make Blaise and her friends take perilous risks, from theft to gang-initiation sex. The author doesn’t make judgments, but rather depicts the characters as products of their environment. The story’s nonstop action becomes an adrenaline rush when Blaise dares to think about a way out of her dead-end neighborhood. Even if she doesn’t make it out, she will go down fighting. An eye-opening, heart-pounding look at survival on the streets. Grades 9-12. --Angela Leeper
Review “An eye-opening, heart-pounding look at survival on the streets.” (Booklist)“Fast paced...for fans of Allison van Diepen’s Snitch…and Greg Takoude’s When We Wuz Famous” (School Library Journal)“A fast-paced adrenaline-rush.” (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA))
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Entertaining, but Can't Recommend It By Problem Solver I picked this book up because 1) it's set in DC, where I live and 2) it's written about a fictional gang seemingly based on the real gang MS-13. As an educator, I've had some professional experience with this topic and as a community member, I've heard the warnings from the police and read the news articles written about local gang activity. There certainly is a presence around these parts, so my curiosity was piqued with this fictional story.In a nutshell, The Lure is about Blaise, a high school girl, who elects to join Core 9 and once a member, becomes a "lure" for their leader, which means she begins seducing an enemy as a distraction so someone else can hurt the enemy or take him out. She is reluctant to do it and once she does it a few times, she begins to have doubts not only about her actions but those of the people "in charge."I have very mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, from what I know anyway, the events Ewing depicts are accurate and show the gritty, belligerent ways of gangs. Blaise thinks she's gaining a family, loyal friends, security, by joining Core 9 but what she actually gets is paranoia and certain death. Something I think that those unfamiliar with how gangs work may be surprised to learn is the idea that members understand that their death is inevitable and that it will probably happen soon. Several times characters reference how we all die at some point, how they think they'll only last a year, etc. Their concept of self-preservation is very different from most other people and is a difficult pill to swallow. Ewing has written an incredibly compelling and fast-paced novel that certainly made me think and that elicited all kinds of emotions, most notably sadness that this is reality for so many children and teens. Like watching a train wreck, I kept turning the pages to see how things would end up for Blaise and though Ewing leaves it open ended, the reader can certainly infer what probably happens to her.So while my immediate reading experience was fairly positive, this is not a book I feel I could recommend really to anyone and here's why. The dialogue and voice are inaccurate. The characters, all Latino gang members who have grown up in extreme poverty, speak like white kids who attend posh private schools with a handful of Spanish phrases peppered throughout. Blaise's inner monologue did not have nearly enough urgency for someone truly facing death. So while the events were well done, the people experiencing those events were not. Also, this book is extremely violent. This is to be expected in a book about gangs - there are group beatings, group rape, coercion through violence and sex, drug use, murders - I had some very vivid dreams for two nights while reading. I would under no circumstance suggest this book to any teenager to read for entertainment because 1) it's probably not the best introduction to the topic if they're unaware of it because of the graphic nature and 2) if they are aware of it or live it, why relive it on the page? If this was somehow meant to be a cautionary tale for potential gang members, I doubt it would sway anyone and I'd be shocked if it made it's way into their hands anyway.I was frankly shocked, because of the content, that this is a young adult book. The violence and graphic situations would be hard for most adults to stomach. That's not to say they couldn't handle it, they certainly could, but there is very little hope in this book and I can't see the overall package being attractive to teens.If you're interested in the subject matter, I'd recommend checking out some news articles instead. Just Google MS-13, you'll find a lot.Right down the middle - 2.5/5 - a well-planned, quick-moving plot, but I'm still confused as to who this book would be right for.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Count Your Blessings By A Book Vacation I have been extremely fortunate in life having grown up in a safe neighborhood with two loving parents that supported me in everything. I never had to worry for my safety when walking out the door, didn’t need to look over my shoulder at school, never had to know alternate routes to get home, worry about gunshots at all hours of the day, or whether there would be enough money coming in for my parents to pay the bills. I knew where my next meal was coming from, what colleges I wanted to go to, how I would pay for my education after high school, and that I could obtain my goals in life without much standing in my way.Blaise Montgomery doesn’t live in a safe neighborhood. Her mother is a drug addict, her father is dead, and her grandmother works late hours and brings home little money. Leaving her house is a risky choice, day in and day out. In order to stay alive, Blaise has to know multiple ways around her community in case the ever present dangers of gang violence close off a route, or two. She has to know what hallways she can walk down and what stairwells to avoid in school if she wants to get home in one piece, with her virginity still intact. She worries about her grandmother who works too hard and doesn’t have enough money to feed Blaise, let alone herself. Blaise would love to go to college, but can barely scrape by in school because survival is on her mind 24/7. The present is all that matters, and she knows, just like everyone else in her neighborhood, that life ends all too soon. She’s seen people try to better themselves, try to get out, but most of them end up in body bags. So what’s the point?While I have never experienced any of what Blaise experiences, the cold hard truth is that many, many children grow up in this exact environment, and as a high school teacher working on the cusp of the city, I’ve taught many of students in a similar situation. I didn’t used to know these places really existed, not until I became a teacher. If you don’t experience it, or you don’t know someone who has, it’s very easy to live in a bubble that just understand that there are many struggling to survive. And it’s a heartbreaking experience to realize that yes, this is real. Just because I haven’t lived it doesn’t mean it’s not. And while it’s easy to look down on people in these situations, saying they need to get an education, that they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, that’s not a reality. What’s more important? Education or food? Education or life? Education or belonging?If you look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, you’ll note that physiological needs come first, and then that of safety. People need to have their basic needs met—food, water, excretion, sleep— before they can move up the scale. If these needs are met, then safety takes over. Those who don’t feel safe on a regular basis are, therefore, unable to move up the scale. They’re unable to have true friendships, or focus on family, because the very real fear for their safety controls everything they do and think. This explains exactly what Blaise is dealing with on a very real level. She barely has any food—she’s hungry a lot of the time, and she’s scared for her safety. Her need level has plateaued between Physiological and Safety. But once she’s part of a gang, once she’s found her “family,” she’s able to move up to the Love and Belonging stage—a stage she’s been yearning to grasp for some time. So it’s no surprise that she joins a gang in her neighborhood—a gang that literally beats her into it as their hazing ritual to see if she’s tough enough to stand within their ranks. And it makes me sick, but I’ve found that this hazing experience is another truth in terms of gang life—one I first heard about when discussing life with my students over the past few years.Within Core 9, Blaise fits in, and now she can begin to work towards self-esteem, confidence, achievement… except being in the gang doesn’t guarantee extreme safety, and as Blaise realizes fairly quickly, there is just as much to fear inside a gang than there is outside of it. So, she finds herself hovering between the Safety and Love/Belonging stage in the Hierarchy of Needs. Is it any wonder, then, that Blaise can’t focus on school? That she can’t foresee herself ever getting out of her ghetto alive, let alone bettering herself and going to college? While we may want to judge her, especially as the media likes to focus on the few amazing stories of those who “got out,” who “pulled themselves up by their boot straps,” this isn’t that story. This is the story of the many who are left behind. This is the story of those who can’t get out.Of course, Blaise makes decisions that I hat—and so do her friends. Of course, I wanted to knock “some sense” into them as I read, to scream at them to call the cops, to run away, to do something… but in all truth, why call the cops when you know they can’t help you? Why run when it will only show your weakness and land you a bullet in your back? Blaise has more sense than I ever would have in her shoes, and though the going is tough and she’s finds herself in a very precarious situation, she continues on as best as she can. And that is pure courage.Originally I didn’t want to pick up this novel. I was afraid it would focus on servitude sex and the downtrodden woman. But it doesn’t—Blaise isn’t raped and any mention of sex is more so glossed over. Instead, what this novel does do is show the very real truth about gang violence and the people who grow up surrounded by it. It shows the many dangers in life that a lot of us don’t even realize exist. And it breaks my heart, but this is one intense, powerful read if you really understand the truths behind it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Lure By sarah brown The Lure by Lynne Ewing is a contemporary book focusing on the initiation into and the life of belonging to a gang.Gritty and raw told through the eyes of Blaise, raised in a neighbourhood where most people are poor and the only answer for most teenagers is to join a gang, in Blaise's case she is being raised by her sick grandmother, money is very tight and so like her childhood friends Satch and Rico she decides to join their gang Core 9.Initial into the gang is to be beaten for 1 minute straight without fighting back, after successfully completing the beating Blaise feels like part of a family, but life in a gang is not as great as it appeared to be when she was on the outside looking in, but when Trek the leader of Core 9 tells her that she will be their lure (enticing opposing gang members, so that they let their guard down and subsequently get beaten up by Core 9 members) against her better judgement and without really being given a choice she accepts.But reality comes crashing down when someone she lured comes after her and results in the death of an innocent bystander, that Blaise comes to realise that this may not be the life that she wants after all, getting out is a lot harder than getting in, and when Trek sets Blaise, Satch and Rico up and turns on them it will end fatally for one of them. and will shock the remaining two into realising that they've got to take the chance and get out while they can.I thoroughly enjoyed this book, the insight into what it takes to not only join a gang but belong to one as well had me very intrigued and in places shocked that this does actually happen.A fast-paced, quick read that contemporary fans should devour.
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