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bethmitcham's review against another edition
4.0
Fabulous inventions, fun takes on historical figures, recurring jokes, parental/child conflict in several different directions -- this book is packed with good stuff. I liked the pacing and the twists and the main characters.
riotbatgrrl's review against another edition
4.0
Didn't like it as much as the Hero's Guide books, but it definitely made me chortle.
imzadirose's review against another edition
2.0
I seem to be in the minority but I thought this book, which had so much potential, was soooooo bad. It kept me entertained, which is why I didn't rate it a 1, but I didn't love it, or even like some of it, which is why I don't rate it a 3.
Here's my issue with it: it's fiction, yes, but with fiction I still want characters to be believable, which this book has NONE.
The MC is a 12 year old girl who acts, behaves and talks more like a 17 or 18 year old. She's smart but also real dumb. The bigger issue was with her mother, who acts, behaves and talks more like a 12 year old. The mother was not a believable character for me, she was just all over the place, criminal at one time, spastic inventor at another and doting mother at another. Only thing in the whole book I believed was Molly telling her mother that she couldn't start acting like a mother at the end of the book.
The only believable character for me was Emmett. He was the only one that stayed consistently true and a good character. The MOI were almost all annoying, especially the one who kept saying "language" for saying things like "drat" and "cracking". Really?! Ugh! And OMG was the "bad guy" ever obvious. Even kids will see that coming, because as SOON as the person is mentioned, which is in a thrown in way relating in no way to the story, you're like yup, that's the bad guy. Too bad it takes the rest of the characters to 70% of the book before they figure it out.
UGH. This book was just bad. I'd recommend it only for young kids or kids who are easily impressed/surprised. It was so bad!
Here's my issue with it: it's fiction, yes, but with fiction I still want characters to be believable, which this book has NONE.
The MC is a 12 year old girl who acts, behaves and talks more like a 17 or 18 year old. She's smart but also real dumb. The bigger issue was with her mother, who acts, behaves and talks more like a 12 year old. The mother was not a believable character for me, she was just all over the place, criminal at one time, spastic inventor at another and doting mother at another. Only thing in the whole book I believed was Molly telling her mother that she couldn't start acting like a mother at the end of the book.
The only believable character for me was Emmett. He was the only one that stayed consistently true and a good character. The MOI were almost all annoying, especially the one who kept saying "language" for saying things like "drat" and "cracking". Really?! Ugh! And OMG was the "bad guy" ever obvious. Even kids will see that coming, because as SOON as the person is mentioned, which is in a thrown in way relating in no way to the story, you're like yup, that's the bad guy. Too bad it takes the rest of the characters to 70% of the book before they figure it out.
UGH. This book was just bad. I'd recommend it only for young kids or kids who are easily impressed/surprised. It was so bad!
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