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Cargando... Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1) (edición 2018)por Maureen Johnson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Stevie Bell has been accepted at the famous private school Ellingham Academy, established by an eccentric millionaire in the 1930s. Stevie arrives with plans of starting on the path of becoming a murder investigator and she plans to start with the cold case of the kidnapping and murders that happened on the Ellingham estate in 1936. But as Stevie begins to dig into the case, another death on campus pulls her into a separate investigation that will have much larger repercussions. I'm usually a big Maureen Johnson but this book didn't quite work for me. The mystery is really well constructed and told in parallel timelines between Stevie at the school in the present and the events of the kidnapping and murders in 1936. I particularly enjoyed the 1930s narrative but I had a rough time with the contemporary story with Stevie. I just had a hard time connecting with Stevie's character, which left me feeling pretty distant from the novel in general. The book ends on a cliffhanger but the distance was enough that I don't care enough to find out what happened next and won't be reading the rest of the series. Takes a bit to give in to the sort of ridiculous setting, but it does get going in the second half. The problem with the love interest is that he's not at all interesting. I believe Stevie is into him, but when they have their romcom low moment, I didn't care that he was mad at her and was annoyed that she moped about it. Is Leo supposed to be gay? There's nail polish, and at one point he calls himself a friend of Dorothy (he's referring to Dorothy Parker, not Oz), which (probably) would've been anachronistic. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Stevie Bell es una entusiasta fan de la investigacin criminal. Y qu mejor lugar para profundizar en sus conocimientos que la Academia llingham, el centro privado fundado en 1930 por el millonario excntrico Albert llingham en las remotas montaas de Vermont? La prestigiosa y exclusiva academia, en la que solo se acepta a un reducido nmero de alumnos brillantes, fue la escena de un crimen que lleva dcadas sin resolver y del que Stevie lo sabe casi todo. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I’ve always enjoyed Maureen Johnson’s books, and this one didn’t disappoint. Stevie, the main character, is dynamic and interesting, and I was invested in her story from the first paragraph. The mystery was great, and it ended with a plot twist that I did NOT see coming. ( )