Suspenseful Clues and Thrilling Reviews discussion

Here is where we will discuss Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson after we finish reading the book. Please only visit this thread AFTER reading the book as there may be spoilers here! Feel free to post links to your Goodreads reviews here as well as general discussion on your thoughts.

I finished the book last night and quite frankly am baffled by the amount of 4 and 5 star ratings. With all due respect, this book was just not well executed for me. Would love to hear other thoughts about the book. The link to my review is below:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished last night as well and had very similar feelings. I am unhauling this from my shelf. I will not continue with this series =)

Jenna wrote: "I finished last night as well and had very similar feelings. I am unhauling this from my shelf. I will not continue with this series =)"

Nice to know its not just me. There is so much hype surrounding this book that I expected better.

The book still hasn't made it to Darwin so ....... might wait for the school library to have it and not buy it with these reviews.

Stephanie wrote: "Jenna wrote: "I finished last night as well and had very similar feelings. I am unhauling this from my shelf. I will not continue with this series =)"

Nice to know its not just me. There is so muc..."

Yes! I totally agree!
Part of it may be that I'm too old for the book as well lmao =)

I’m actually enjoying this! It’s like Malorie Towers (Enid Blyton) meets Agatha Christie. I only read the first Shadows of London book by the same author and she seems to follow a formula. I’m halfway through now and am hoping nothing happens to lower my opinion..

Just picked this up at my favorite bookstore this weekend and hope to read it next week since I have another book club book to read by this coming Sunday. 😁 Interesting to see some weren’t exactly thrilled with it.

I'm hoping to start this one this week!

I just finished and while I enjoyed listening to it I’m a bit frustrated that there was no resolution to anything. I know it’s just the first book in a trilogy but I don’t think it was necessary to leave EVERYTHING so unresolved.

I listened to it and found it very hard to get into it in the beginning because of the narrator. I would say it was about 3.5 stars. I, also, feel like I could have had more of a conclusion. At least ONE mystery solved. Whether it's the riddle, the 1936 mystery, Hayes. There's a lot of moving parts. I will definitely read the next one in the series but I hope it has more of a resolution next time

Finally got my copy of this today (post possibly slowed a tad by the cyclone last week). Still waiting on the march read though.