High Heat - a review by Mario Cordova Salcido

High Heat

by Carl Deuker

*** stars

High Heat is about Shane, he plays baseball, he has a very luxury house and he goes to a very luxury school too, everything is going very good in his life until his dad suicided because he was involved in drugs. This was a very hard moment for all the family, for Shane, for Marian and for his mom. So they just continued living their lives without him, that was hard because they lost a lot luxuries in their life, of course is very hard for children to lose their dad, and for a wife to lose to her husband.

Shane changed to a public high school so did Marian too, but Shane continued playing baseball, then he realized that the world doesn't stop because you are suffering, he realized that you have to carry on. One day Shane was playing with his baseball team, he was a pitcher a closer to be exact, he was not having a good time because he was sad about his dad, Shane had a lot of questions about the suicide. Reese was hitting, Reese's family had bought Shane's old luxury home.

Shane hit him on the head by accident but a lot of people thought it was on purpose.

After that Shane could not throw hard again because he was nervous when he was facing to the hitters. Later when Reese was cured saw to Shane again in a baseball game, they talked and they started training baseball together, Reese just wanted to hit against Shane again because he was not doing so well after that bad pitch. At the end of the story Shane faced Reese again in a baseball game and Shane did a strike out to Reese with a 91 mph fastball. They were friends again like the old times, also Shane was called to get a scholarship in a college so his mom and Marian were very happy for him.

I was expecting an other kind of end because it was like the same facts through the history, Shane was talking about his games again and again that was good at the beginning but after it was a kind of boring. The book was a little bit sad I think because the beginning was very shocking because when everything seemed fine and then the suicide of the dad, I think that fact was very quick like just at the beginning of the book; High Heat was a good book but maybe it need like more funny stuff like funny histories or something like that.