Mia’s Reviews > The Vanishing Stair > Status Update

Somehow managed to read 85 pages today?? But tbh, not a whole lot happened in those pages. They found Ellie’s body and then we had to listen to it being explained to people (students, staff, friends etc.) too many times. And the David and Stevie stuff (in this whole series in general really) is just odd to me. I don’t quite understand their dynamic. He’s a weird character in a story of amazing ones

Omg finallyyyy the titular stair comes into play over halfway through the book. Feel like the plot is going to ramp up now! Kinda like how Hayes’s death in the last book actually begun the mystery pretty late in. Also can I just say how much I loved that like two page Halloween party scene? The setting was great and got me seriously craving to be at a fun boarding school like that. But it didn’t last long enough!

Feel like this is still very introductory? But not necessarily in a bad way, like I’m having a great time and love the writing (actually laughed aloud a few times!), there’s just not really much mystery solving going on, and when there is, it’s not the fun kind. Might change in the next chapter though. Still love the vibes of this series. Also that Truly Devious reveal scene came so out of nowhere??

So I read 30 pages the first day but it hadn’t really clicked yet. Didn’t read the next day coz I was a bit unmotivated to get through the early exposition. But then today I was loving it since it actually felt like the Truly Devious I know and love! Laughing and grinning at it. Nate is still one of my favourite YA characters. Don’t think it was a great idea to have Stevie leave school and come back instantly