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Pratt Twins #12
The Lollipop Plot
Returning to Whittington for Homecoming Weekend, twins Susan and Chris Pratt learn that the mayor is being threatened in connection with a land scam and that they must kidnap his snooty daughter to get to the bottom of the mystery
139 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 30, 1990
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April 22, 2018
The Lollipop Plot
PLOT: It's Homecoming Weekend and the Pratt Twins (Susan and Chris) are home for the weekend. And to kick off the festivities is the opening fall festival with booths of food, carnival games, and a local rock band. And of course, socializing as everyone in town has come out to celebrate. Including Felecia the twins snobby rival and her hot new boyfriend. But a damper is placed on the evening when the Mayor steps to the stage to deliver a big speech and is cut off when he receives a threating note. We find out that he plans to speak out against some of the older sections of the town being demolished to add newer modifications which will leave some of the older residents (like Mr. Kingly) without homes. The plot thickens when in deciding to take on this new adventure (which they name "The Lollipop Plot" because the twins seem to have as much as a fascination and obsession with food-based named books as I do) and go snooping around in City Hall and "accidentally" hear a conversation between Felicia and her new guy who heavily persuades her to accuse Mr. Kingly of sending the note in opposition to the Mayor's plan in keeping the residency because he'd be in favor of getting an upgrade. So the Pratt twins dig deeper in order to clear his innocence and find out who the real culprit is.
MY THOUGHTS: At first when I started to read this I kind of groaned because it sounded like the same plot line as STRAWBERRY SUMMER. In that one, it was a camp that needed to be saved. In that one, it was whose behind the pranks. In this one, it's whose behind the threatening letter. RECYCLED! Maybe it's time to put this series to rest. There are some "slight" alterations, but over-all it's still pretty much the same reasons. A big-time corporation wants to tear down the land to modernize it and put in shopping centers and hotels. I feel like I've seen this plot OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER! I even can recall it in a very VERY old show called RAGS to RICHES with the place that needed to be saved an old dinner. I've seen it in JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS. Then it was a Rock and Roll Museum. I'm sure I can think of TONS of others! The place may vary, but the storyline is ALWAYS the same. It's not that I don't like the twins as characters, but just like in ALL these books they've gone from being slightly mischievous too not seeming to know when they've crossed the line because they're doing it in the name of "justice" for someone. And by the end of the book, without so much as an acknowledgment that some of this stuff is ILLEGAL instead, they're PRAISED for it. For example, I guess we can blame the janitor's ignorance for just letting them in City Hall, but once they're inside they go down to the archives and just start going through records. They go into Clark's office and dig around in his desk in his personal items and open up his files. They look on the Mayor's desk (and I think they actually take something off it). They impersonate Felicia on air. It's all "supposed" to be done in a way that gets to the bottom of the mystery (and fouls the bad guy's plans) BUT these girl's aren't (no matter how much they seem to THINK they are) detectives!! And some of the stuff they do is just as bad as the bad guys. You can't do bad stuff yourself in the name of good and then rename the act as "good". But again it all gets swept away under the rug in the end. As for the "mystery" itself, any blind person could see the too good to be true guy is not what he appears to be. As such in real life. They NEVER are! And he's working for the big corporation that wants to buy out the land and the one over it wants to run for mayor. SURPRISE! SURPRISE! Not much of a "mystery".
RATING: 5 Repetitive plot! Done to death!
PLOT: It's Homecoming Weekend and the Pratt Twins (Susan and Chris) are home for the weekend. And to kick off the festivities is the opening fall festival with booths of food, carnival games, and a local rock band. And of course, socializing as everyone in town has come out to celebrate. Including Felecia the twins snobby rival and her hot new boyfriend. But a damper is placed on the evening when the Mayor steps to the stage to deliver a big speech and is cut off when he receives a threating note. We find out that he plans to speak out against some of the older sections of the town being demolished to add newer modifications which will leave some of the older residents (like Mr. Kingly) without homes. The plot thickens when in deciding to take on this new adventure (which they name "The Lollipop Plot" because the twins seem to have as much as a fascination and obsession with food-based named books as I do) and go snooping around in City Hall and "accidentally" hear a conversation between Felicia and her new guy who heavily persuades her to accuse Mr. Kingly of sending the note in opposition to the Mayor's plan in keeping the residency because he'd be in favor of getting an upgrade. So the Pratt twins dig deeper in order to clear his innocence and find out who the real culprit is.
MY THOUGHTS: At first when I started to read this I kind of groaned because it sounded like the same plot line as STRAWBERRY SUMMER. In that one, it was a camp that needed to be saved. In that one, it was whose behind the pranks. In this one, it's whose behind the threatening letter. RECYCLED! Maybe it's time to put this series to rest. There are some "slight" alterations, but over-all it's still pretty much the same reasons. A big-time corporation wants to tear down the land to modernize it and put in shopping centers and hotels. I feel like I've seen this plot OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER! I even can recall it in a very VERY old show called RAGS to RICHES with the place that needed to be saved an old dinner. I've seen it in JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS. Then it was a Rock and Roll Museum. I'm sure I can think of TONS of others! The place may vary, but the storyline is ALWAYS the same. It's not that I don't like the twins as characters, but just like in ALL these books they've gone from being slightly mischievous too not seeming to know when they've crossed the line because they're doing it in the name of "justice" for someone. And by the end of the book, without so much as an acknowledgment that some of this stuff is ILLEGAL instead, they're PRAISED for it. For example, I guess we can blame the janitor's ignorance for just letting them in City Hall, but once they're inside they go down to the archives and just start going through records. They go into Clark's office and dig around in his desk in his personal items and open up his files. They look on the Mayor's desk (and I think they actually take something off it). They impersonate Felicia on air. It's all "supposed" to be done in a way that gets to the bottom of the mystery (and fouls the bad guy's plans) BUT these girl's aren't (no matter how much they seem to THINK they are) detectives!! And some of the stuff they do is just as bad as the bad guys. You can't do bad stuff yourself in the name of good and then rename the act as "good". But again it all gets swept away under the rug in the end. As for the "mystery" itself, any blind person could see the too good to be true guy is not what he appears to be. As such in real life. They NEVER are! And he's working for the big corporation that wants to buy out the land and the one over it wants to run for mayor. SURPRISE! SURPRISE! Not much of a "mystery".
RATING: 5 Repetitive plot! Done to death!
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