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Thank you to NetGalley, Rosen Publishing Group, West 44 Books, and Ryan Wolf for the opportunity to read Doubling the Bounty in exchange for an honest review.
The novel is told in a poetic verse style in the alternating first-person perspectives of Olivia and Samantha. Olivia's father has struggles with meth in the past. He wants to be a better father for his seventeen-year-old daughter, even though he takes her in his car to an unknown destination. He is running away from the law, and he is bringing his daughter down with him.
Samantha's father is a bounty hunter. He seeks people who haven't paid their court dues or who avoid their court mandates. In this case, Samantha thinks she is going to visit her grandparents (which she technically is), but her father is on a trail; he just didn't want his daughter getting mixed up in it. Who is he after? You guessed it! Olivia's dad!
The novel explores the dynamics of a father-daughter relationship, one of the side of a drugged passed, one with a more hardcore job that involves a lot of travel. Both aspects make these fathers unique, thus adding a diverse strain to their relationships with their children. Both girls also consider each other's situations, comparing their own father-daughter relationship to what the other's must be like.
Being a HiLo novel-in-verse, the book is easy and fun to read. The characters are fifteen and seventeen, making for an ideal teen novel. It's fun for young readers to see different types of father-daughter relationships that may exist in the world, and perhaps they can relate in some way. The novel offers thought-provoking dynamics about family for a teen reader.