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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
New location, new unsolved murder.
It just felt too much the same to hook me. I truly should have moved on but I was stubborn and powered through.
The series is overall fun, but they all felt like they took very roundabout ways to solved the cases and it didn’t always fit together for me.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This wasn’t the best stevie bell mystery by any means. However, my love for these characters makes me love any story that Maureen Johnson writes about them you know? The mystery wasn’t as well developed as others but i really enjoyed the english backdrop and the cottage countryside setting. The final scene did infuriate me though. Patiently waiting for book six because this is obviously not the end of stevie bell
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The setting, murder and overall most of it is great, but the end is just WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!??!?!!??
I loved the romance, but cliffhanger much? I need the 6th to come out soon in. I have to know if she moves on, or if they get back together! It was a little tricky to follow at points, but I enjoyed the plot. Also sooooo happy there's another queer character. Slay, Nate! I liked the romance aspects, but I felt that sometimes it drew the attention to far away from the mystery. Would recommend, but with some warning.
I really don't like the characters enough to keep reading these, but I will. There are a lot of choices and opinions that are laid out knowing that they're wrong or untrue and that's not like a bad thing, it just bugs me.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Probably the weakest book of the series in my opinion. The premise was really interesting but execution wise it fell kinda flat. A lot of the book was focused on Stevie's relationship, shifting focus away from the mystery and the case. There's also a lot, really a lot of other distractions like what the group did in England and a lot of conversations that had little significance. This mystery involved at least 9 new people, and with the book talking about so many other stuff, the book didn't allow readers to understand much of the 9. So I don't know who to suspect because I simply don't even know them. When the murderer was revealed, I don't even know much about them. Also how she solves the murder is very iffy, not much solid evidence
So much cons but it is a good read though. I really like the context being set in England in the late 1900s. I also really enjoy seeing how the 7 new characters grew from high school students to where they are in life now and coming back to solve their friends murder.
Overall, not the best but this series is almost always guaranteed to be pretty decent
So much cons but it is a good read though. I really like the context being set in England in the late 1900s. I also really enjoy seeing how the 7 new characters grew from high school students to where they are in life now and coming back to solve their friends murder.
Overall, not the best but this series is almost always guaranteed to be pretty decent
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
you genuinely could not pay me enough to care about david or anything that happens to him. he could be getting robbed at gunpoint in front of my eyes and i would remind the robber to turn off the safety.
nine liars follows stevie as she investigates her third case, the murder of two young adults who died on a vacation with their seven friends years prior. as her investigation progresses and she uncovers new facts about that night, she discovers that the string of burglaries in the neighborhood that police suspected to be connected to the murders might not have been connected at all. worse, she begins to wonder whether the true murderer is one of the seven survivors.
i went into this book with the intention of reading something silly, and yet it still managed to disappoint me. i had a fun time with the original trilogy and the box in the woods, but from those, i understand johnson’s writing style and her typical plot choices and, from that, am able to go into her books not expecting much more than a fun time. even with those low expectations, this book just fell flat to me. i hate david with every fiber of my being and the fact that basically the entire first half of this book revolved entirely around his and stevie’s relationship made it almost unbearable to read for me. the second half of the book might have been enough to garner a higher rating from me if the investigation and her conclusion hadn’t felt so rushed. the fact that she chose to end the book as she did also just didn’t really do anything for me because i just do not believe that this case needed to be split amongst more than one book; if even a quarter of the first half had been taken out and the investigation had started sooner, i feel that whatever she is going to do with the next book could have happened in this one instead.
again, i have read her books before, so i knew what i was signing up for going into this book. however, everything that saved the previous books for me just wasn’t present in this one, primarily the absence of a truly compelling mystery. i guessed the true killer and their intentions, as well as everything surrounding the murder, almost as soon as the investigation truly began. i am not saying that a predictable plot twist automatically makes that twist bad, because i do think that it can still be good if it’s done well. this one, however, just wasn’t done very well in my opinion.
the side characters have usually been able to pick up the slack that the plotline has left in previous books, but they just weren’t really doing it for me in this book either. i loved nate and his arc, i care for him like a son, so i am in no way speaking about him; if it wasn’t for his presence in this book, it probably would have only gotten two stars. i enjoyed janelle and vi, but everything that they did in this book felt so similar to everything that they had done in the previous books that it just felt repetitive and boring to me. i didn’t like a lot of stevie’s internal dialogue because so much of it had to do with david, and everything that didn’t have to do with david wasn’t developed enough to feel like anything more than two-dimensional teenage issues.
i don’t know, this one just fell very flat to me. with that being said, i will probably still continue this series, but i will do it very wearily and with the subconscious assumption that the downward trend in the quality of these books is likely to continue.
nine liars follows stevie as she investigates her third case, the murder of two young adults who died on a vacation with their seven friends years prior. as her investigation progresses and she uncovers new facts about that night, she discovers that the string of burglaries in the neighborhood that police suspected to be connected to the murders might not have been connected at all. worse, she begins to wonder whether the true murderer is one of the seven survivors.
i went into this book with the intention of reading something silly, and yet it still managed to disappoint me. i had a fun time with the original trilogy and the box in the woods, but from those, i understand johnson’s writing style and her typical plot choices and, from that, am able to go into her books not expecting much more than a fun time. even with those low expectations, this book just fell flat to me. i hate david with every fiber of my being and the fact that basically the entire first half of this book revolved entirely around his and stevie’s relationship made it almost unbearable to read for me. the second half of the book might have been enough to garner a higher rating from me if the investigation and her conclusion hadn’t felt so rushed. the fact that she chose to end the book as she did also just didn’t really do anything for me because i just do not believe that this case needed to be split amongst more than one book; if even a quarter of the first half had been taken out and the investigation had started sooner, i feel that whatever she is going to do with the next book could have happened in this one instead.
again, i have read her books before, so i knew what i was signing up for going into this book. however, everything that saved the previous books for me just wasn’t present in this one, primarily the absence of a truly compelling mystery. i guessed the true killer and their intentions, as well as everything surrounding the murder, almost as soon as the investigation truly began. i am not saying that a predictable plot twist automatically makes that twist bad, because i do think that it can still be good if it’s done well. this one, however, just wasn’t done very well in my opinion.
the side characters have usually been able to pick up the slack that the plotline has left in previous books, but they just weren’t really doing it for me in this book either. i loved nate and his arc, i care for him like a son, so i am in no way speaking about him; if it wasn’t for his presence in this book, it probably would have only gotten two stars. i enjoyed janelle and vi, but everything that they did in this book felt so similar to everything that they had done in the previous books that it just felt repetitive and boring to me. i didn’t like a lot of stevie’s internal dialogue because so much of it had to do with david, and everything that didn’t have to do with david wasn’t developed enough to feel like anything more than two-dimensional teenage issues.
i don’t know, this one just fell very flat to me. with that being said, i will probably still continue this series, but i will do it very wearily and with the subconscious assumption that the downward trend in the quality of these books is likely to continue.
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated