271 reviews for:

Among the Impostors

Margaret Peterson Haddix

3.86 AVERAGE

guardianofthebooks's review

3.5

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Sexual content, Excrement

The school where Luke is at has a number of kids with autism and agoraphobia. One of the characters makes negative comments about them that I did not appreciate. To be fair,

the character turns out to be a bad guy

so it's not exactly portrayed as a good thing. There's also a brief note about boys drawing pictures of naked girls.

briethebookworm's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

frispbabe's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

captain_valour's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

mousereads's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

dadcalves's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

emily98griffin's review

4.0

mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jesus_lover's review against another edition

5.0

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Specifically 4.5 stars

user613's review against another edition

4.0

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This is a great continuation to the Shadow Children series. (If you haven’t yet read the first book, [b:Among the Hidden|227651|Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)|Margaret Peterson Haddix|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388382796l/227651._SX50_.jpg|1210896], you’ll want to read it before reading this one.)

This book picks up where the last book left, with Luke going to a school under a fake identity. It was great watching Luke grow into himself. I loved how the book showed both his fears and hesitations, and how he slowly overcomes these, and take action to improve his life, and the lives of the shadow children around him.

This is a clean coming of age story, in a well built world, with many interesting characters, and lots of excitement. Recommended to young fans of sci-fi.

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Content:
There is some bullying, danger,

Spoiler

threat of death, and betrayal.

Once, Luke is looking around his classroom in class, and sees boys drawing pictures of naked girls instead of taking notes.

mystic_muse's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No