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 Scrap Review 
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 SCRAP was a novel that started out magnificently but slowly went downhill when it introduced alchemy and magical elements. I'm not sure if I disliked that because I was expecting pure, non-fantastical historical fiction, but I thought it was way too far fetched.I felt that the story could have been enjoyable with out all the extra magical pizazz. 
 Tucker Scrap is given her name after she dropped on a doorstep with a scrap of paper attached to her. Growing up an orphan was tough, and Tucker took shelter working in a bakery, where she would occasionally sneak food and steal other items from various other vendors. She would then go home to the orphanage, which was run by her friend named Ash until he is forced to leave due to his health. Tucker takes over. 
 Tucker lives, tells stories, and narrates in the voice of an eighteen-or very experienced-sixteen year old. Her age is never directly told to us until about 200 pages in, and it is shocking. Tucker is thirteen years old, and I had a major problem with this. 
 There are numerous talks between her and her friend, Kally, about maidenhood. Kally seems to think it is crazy Tucker isn't selling herself on the streets and prostituting around like she is. Tucker also talks to boys and thinks about them in a way that makes me cringe now that I know her age. Not only did I find her age a bit disturbing, it was also unrealistic because no thirteen would ever act like this. 
 Overall, this book could have been so much more. I was pleasantly surprised with it at first, but once Tucker's age is discovered and alchemy and magic were introduced, it was all too much and this book fell horribly flat.