Gina Rae Mitchell

Kyle and Corey and the Game-Store Mystery by Joe Stephens | Review-Excerpt-$25 Giveaway

A book blog tour from Goddess Fish Promotions.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and Marianne & Judy at Goddess Fish for providing me the information for this tour.

Book Details

KYLE & COREY and the Game-Store Mystery by Joe Stephens
Series: KYLE & COREY #1
Published by Covfefe Press on 06/13/2021
Genres: Action & Adventure, Amateur Sleuth, Fiction, Children's, Detective/Sleuth, Humorous, Middle-Grade, Mystery
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 270

Kyle & Corey Holley (15 and 12) live in Fairly Springs, a small southern beach town. Kyle is a budding engineer; Corey is impetuous, funny, and sports-crazy.

Like most brothers, they fight often, but they also solve crimes-like the rash of recent robberies around town. When Kyle and Corey investigate, they learn that in each robbery, the thieves stole a high-end desktop computer. Why? What are they looking for? And how soon till they find it?

Other complications include Corey's wheelchair-bound math tutor, Kyle's after-school job in a local game store, and a revolutionary new video game launching soon.

Kyle and Corey: Brothers. Best Friends. Detectives. They don't go looking for trouble; it has them on speed dial!

Source: Amazon Purchase, Goddess Fish Promotions, Kindle Unlimited, Received from the author or publisher for review.

 

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Excerpt from Kyle and Corey and the Game-Store Mystery

That night at dinner, sitting at their comfortable round oak dining table at

home, Mrs. Holley said to Corey, “She thinks you’re a pathological liar.”

 

“He is a pathological liar,” Kyle said, helping himself to more mashed

potatoes and pouring a generous helping of brown gravy over them.

Corey, sitting across the table from him, glared over his plate of sliced roast

beef, steamed broccoli, and a smaller helping of mashed potatoes. “Liar is a

strong word. I know the difference between truth and a lie, you turd.”

 

“Corey!” his mother said in warning.

 

“Well, I do. I only lied at the end a little, when I said the whole thing was a

lie.”

 

“I know,” Mrs. Holley said. “Ms. Morrison hasn’t lived here long enough to

know what happened this summer.”

 

“That’s why I did it. If she’d thought it was really true, she’d have asked all

kinds of questions and probably made me write a whole other paper. She’s that

type.”

 

Mrs. Holley looked affectionately at her younger son. Corey had a knack for

picking out the essential personality traits in everyone he met, almost instantly.

He knew things about people after a ten-minute conversation that took therapists

months to root out.

 

Her husband Donald was proud of Kyle for his math and science abilities, his

kind and forgiving nature, his loyalty to friends, and his gift for taking raw

materials and turning them into something new and unexpected. He was proud

of Corey for his people smarts, his vivid personality, and his natural ability as an

athlete. “I wouldn’t trade either of ’em for a million bucks,” he told his wife

often, and she always answered, “Wait till someone makes you an offer.”

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My thoughts on Kyle and Corey and the Game-Store Mystery

I enjoyed this middle-grade mystery more than I expected to. Although it’s written with a younger audience in mind, this Nana loved it. The young detective brothers are true to life. They fuss and dig at each other, but when needed, they band together and have one another’s back. Kyle and Corey are about the age of a couple of my grandsons. I found Kyle and Corey very realistically written.

While the book is a middle-grade mystery and that storyline is well-done, there are many subtle lessons to be learned along the way. I picked up on several themes, from inclusion to diversity to kindness and truthfulness.

The pacing is smooth throughout the book and the author drops clues just often enough to keep the reader turning the pages to see what happens next.

I highly recommend Kyle and Corey and the Game-Store Mystery to all lovers of youthful detective tales. Joe Stephens may have just written the new version of the Hardy Boys. I grew up reading the original Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew stories. I think this book is undoubtedly equal in the engaging quality of the storytelling.

Do yourself a favor and grab a copy today. You’ll be happy you read this quick, fun, engaging tale.

 

I’ll be happy if you purchase it using one of my links…wink, wink.

I received a copy of the book for the tour. This review is my honest, unbiased opinion.

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Giveaway!

Joe Stephens will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

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Visit more stops on the tour for extra chances to win!

September 9: Our Town Book Reviews
September 9: Sandra’s Book Club
September 16: The Children’s & Teens’ Book Connection
September 16: Andi’s Middle Grade and Chapter Books
September 16: The Reading Addict
September 23: Notes From a Romantic’s Heart
September 23: Gina Rae Mitchell
September 30: Kit’ N Kabookle
September 30: Lisa’s Reading

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