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Really really great. A solid fave from childhood that still holds up to reading now and very very Canadian. Lots of settings and places that scream Canadiana and with a solid twist at the end. Review by N. O: "This book is full of useful legal terms and is unlike other teen books.

In my own opinion, I consider the novel "quid pro quo" an excellent book with a humorous and intriguing plot. It's written for a young adult audience, but clever, suspenseful, and funny enough to keep adults reading until the end. The author had also done a great job putting all the pieces of the crime scenes together to make the suspect the suspect. Although the novel is about solving mysteri All of a sudden Cyril MacIntyre is being dragged along to law school by his irresponsible twenty-eight year old mother, Andy.

But when she finally graduates and gets a job at a law firm, she just vanishes! Cyril must put the pieces together and find Andy before she's gone for good As he searches for clues, he has to face many barriers.

In this life threatening situation, his knowledge from law school is put to the test. I picked up this book because I was at the library At the time I was reading this, I was in Grade 5 I believe.

At the start of the book, I found it quite boring, and didn't really have a storyline. As I got more into the middle of the book, I started to enjoy it more, and was able to want to read the rest easily. I finished the book, and I have to say it was okay. But I did not like how it took a while to get interesting. Just my opinion.

I didn't mind this story, but found myself annoyed at the main character's overly dim responses to some of the clues in the story. I also thought the ending was to predictable, which is never a great way to end a book. Wow, I really liked this. I'm looking forward to reading the other book s? Next, his mom goes missing and only leaves behind a very cryptic voice mail. Can Cyril figure out what the heck is going on? I really liked Cyril -- he was funny and sympathetic, smart without being a jerk about it at least not most of the time , and just felt very real.

The rest of the characters in the book were not as deeply fleshed out, but that didn't much matter for my enjoyment. This is a quick, fun read that is perfect for anyone who ever muttered under their breath that Encyclopedia Brown was a bit of a brown-nosed know-it-all.

I like Cyral. He is written with a very clever voice. So, he knows a lot about the legal system in Canada. And he peppers this knowledge throughout this mystery. Which really, is the best kind of mystery. We had almost all the clues we needed to solve it. But, for a middle-grade book, it is very well written, and makes you work for your story. Very short chapters, easy to read, but with lots to think about in each chapter, as he lists a legal phrase, and then defines it, and it always has something to do with what is happening.

Highly recommend this book, as it is a lot of fun, and you might actually learn something. Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. As a result, he has picked up a great deal of legal knowledge himself. When she graduated, she got him the job as receptionist at the two-woman law firm she works for that deals mainly with poor people.

Cyril is convinced he must be blackmailing her. When Andy disappears, Cyril must play amateur detective using all his skills, including his knowledge of the law, to find her.

Quid Pro Quo by author Vicki Grant is a fast fun legal thriller aimed at a YA audience but definitely something adults can enjoy. It is chock full of dry humour, quirky characters, and the kind of pacing that has made more than a few reviewers compare it to a sitcom. It would make a nice summer read especially for parents looking for something for their reluctant reader. Thirteen year old Cyril MacIntyre started law school when he was ten, OK, not really , but his crazy mother did drag him to all of her law school classes.

What was he supposed to do? I was asking for it. If she wasn't so competitive, she wouldn't have had to prove she could go to law school when she was twenty-five. If she wasn't so cheap, she wouldn't have dragged me to all her night classes. I mean, would it have killed her to spend ten bucks occasionally for a babysitter?

She spends more than that every day on her French fry habit. If she wasn't such a worrywart, she wouldn't have made me stay up every night helping her study.

If she hadn't been all those things, if she'd just been a normal boring person like mothers are supposed to be, I wouldn't have known anything about the law. And if I hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have had a big greasy pair of hands around my neck. My brain wouldn't have been ricocheting off the back of my eyeballs. Come home! Frankly, I'd had enough of Andy messing up my life. I wasn't going to let her get away with it again. Suddenly I could hardly wait to get my hands on her.

I guess that's what I needed. A goal. Something to look forward to. I got this burst of strength. It wasn't superhuman strength or anything handy like that, but it was enough. I bent the guy's thumbs back a millimeter or two.

My wind-pipe popped open. I sucked in this little whistle of air, looked him right in the eye and said what I needed to say. Factum A statement of the facts and law to be referred to, which is filed by each party in a legal application, appeal or motion.

That's not as crazy as it sounds. I bet everybody was thinking the same thing. Toggle navigation. Main Quid Pro Quo. ISBN Your tags:. Send-to-Kindle or Email Please login to your account first Need help? Please read our short guide how to send a book to Kindle.