Not only one of those hi/lo novels-in-verse, but a genre one, too, almost, as crime sets about getting in the way for a pair of innocent teenagers. One is the daughter of a druggy, who takes her and drives to his old stomping grounds of Florida, thus breaking no end of rules, the laws about kidnap and of bail among them. The other is the daughter of a bounty hunter, trying to find the first man now he's jumped bail. Neither are willingly in the car with their dad, but just how is this all going to play out?

This has serious issues. Whaddaya know, they arrive at the same hotel. What are the chances, they both go to the same fast food eatery for breakfast. Whodathunk they're the same age, and still trying to work out why their dads do what they do. The whole thing is not without interest, of course, as we go from one lass's narration to the other and back, with about three chunks each, but the whole last section is a character study, and not a narrative, and the book ultimately succeeds in being much less dramatic than you could ever imagine.

Furthermore, this doesn't really justify being in verse – it is a long short story, padded out with page design to pretend to be a novel, and the format doesn't suit the contents and vice versa. Unlike the trap remix of "Sugar Sugar" it mentions, it's not a crime against humanity, but it is similarly dubious and not doing what we want. Two and a bit stars.

Thank you so much to West 44 Books and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.

This was nothing like I’d read before, nor did the story go the way I expected it was going to go. It was full of surprises and twists within the story. I honestly thought we would get more of the girls somehow connecting with each other but that didn’t happen, which was a shame.

The story was really unique and interesting, two dads and two daughters, both had rocky relationships, we got the story from both perspectives throughout seeing the events unfolding from each one of them. One on the lamb and the other chasing them, I did like the cat and mouse esc storyline it was very creative and how it was written by the daughters point of view, it added a lot of layers to what was happening with the story.

Olivia and Samantha our two protagonist were both so incredibly different, from how they styled themselves, to their life story, but I felt like they should have had a really grounding deep moment of connection, which we didn’t get. I really liked both girls and felt so sad that they’d both been roped into this dangerous drama both the dads were involved in. It was a pretty scary adventure honestly, but both girls were so grounded and calm and held it all together for their dads and even both helped them out.

This was a very unique verse book that I enjoyed reading, I did think the ending was abrupt and didn’t feel like the story had completed yet, but I really got hooked into the story and was enjoying the scary journey the girls were on with their fathers.

This book was good but I just felt it needed more. The storyline was good but just lacked details and more on the plot line.

A fast-paced, exciting read. A story that pulls you in and holds your attention. It was quite an adventure, and the excellent pacing was truly amplified in verse format!

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.