Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkes

Kiara, Luis, Mom, Devlin, Alex, Brittany, Mrs.W, Madison, Brandon, Nick. These are the people's lives that Carlos's existance start to ruin. That's what drug-dealers do. Ruin lives. Meet Carlos, the gangbanger, and Kiara, the goody-goody.

Carlos, is a gangster. Plain, and simple. Gang member, drug dealer, and a rebel. He belongs to The Latino Blood, one of Mexico's most dangerous gangs. His older brother, Alex used to be a member, too, but he was kicked out of the gang. Alex then moves out to go to college, and starts dating his barbie like girlfriend, Brittany. Carlos is forced to live with Alex, for his own safety. Carlos starts going out with Madison, Miss Popularity, and then he is busted for drugs, that were planted by Madison's dealer, Nick. Nick was hired by Colorado's most dangerous dealer, Devlin. Carlos is then forced by the judge to live with one of Alex's profesor, Mr. Westford. Westford has a daughter, Kiara, and a young son named Brandon.

The story then goes into Kiara's point of view. Kiara has speech problems, and loves hiking, working on cars and she has only 1 friend named Tuck. Kiara soons starts to show affection for Carlos, then only to find out she has to live with him. Carlos has to follow all the rules of the house, and he's not happy about it. Calos then figures out how to get Madison jealous by making Kiara his fake girlfriend. They then make a deal to date, and go to homecoming together.

Carlos calls Devlin, only to find out that Devlin wants to use him as a dealer. Caros gets beat up, by Rodriguez, an ex- Latino Blood, and 4 other guys. Westford, Alex and Carlos all devise a plan to stop Devlin's drug plant before Carlos, and everyone he cares about are dead.

I chose this book, because, I wanted to read it before my other friend did. I thought the book would be really boring, but even the first page got me interested. I'd rate it 5/5. I'd reccomend this to that friend I took the book from. :) Really read this book. It's awesome!!!!