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postitsandpens's review against another edition
4.0
I am a really big fan of this series, y'all. I think it's extremely well done, full of twists and turns, intriguing relationships, and lots of fun adventure. It reminds me a lot of the National Treasure movies, which I love, because the characters are all on a quest to find a mythical tomb that holds a weapon that could destroy the world. And I am DOWN for that. I also really appreciated the emotional growth Avery experiences in this installment, and am crossing my fingers that the ending means what I hope it means as far as the relationships go. I'm definitely looking forward to the third and final book!
smit1286's review against another edition
2.0
I enjoyed the last half of the book but the first half was a bit boring. It felt formulaic to me - go to a country, meet a family, search for a clue, go to a new country, meet a new family, search for a clue, over and over again. About a hundred pages of the same formula. Once the author stopped trying so hard to fit in visits to new countries, it allowed the plot to develop and the story became much more interesting and exciting.
allibruns's review against another edition
4.0
This is better than [b:The Conspiracy of Us|17134589|The Conspiracy of Us (The Conspiracy of Us, #1)|Maggie Hall|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1410275946s/17134589.jpg|23536517] and I loved that so I'm not throwing that out lightly. This installment is action packed. I loved Avery so much in this. I loved her journey from the girl who couldn't wrap her head around what her life had become to the kick ass girl who realized that yes she could do this. Avery isn't a girl born into this world so her moments of doubt and self pity felt real to me and by the end I wanted to stand up and cheer for her.
Typically I hate love triangles, like I skim right over them kind of hate, so I want to give Maggie Hall big credit for portraying a love triangle that not only made sense to the story but that I was fully engrossed in. I can't wait for book 3.
Typically I hate love triangles, like I skim right over them kind of hate, so I want to give Maggie Hall big credit for portraying a love triangle that not only made sense to the story but that I was fully engrossed in. I can't wait for book 3.
doublearegee's review against another edition
4.0
An excellent read and I can't wait for the conclusion.
the_bookish_scorpio's review against another edition
4.0
Questa serie continua a essere appassionante!
Non vedo l'ora di scoprire cosa succederà nell'ultimo volume!
Non vedo l'ora di scoprire cosa succederà nell'ultimo volume!
agellak's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-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? It's complicated
celsius273's review against another edition
2.0
Highly disappointing :( that is the biggest thing that I can say about this book.
So I really liked The Conspiracy of Us because it was fun and reminded me of books I loved like the Heist Society and perhaps a bit of A Study in Charlotte too. I specifically praised the development of the Circle, the secret organization that basically ran the world, as a society as well as the LACK of a love triangle. Unfortunately, this book took both of those things and tossed them out the window and that was really quite a shame because the way the last book left off had a lot of potential.
The Conspiracy of Us leaves off with Avery and Jack trying to figure out the whole Napoleon riddle situation and this book starts us off right after the first book. What follows this is basically a series of go to a new city, do some sleuthing around and miraculously find what they’re looking for, move on to the next city which just happens to be the correct place to be and rinse, wash, repeat. I mean each little scene isn’t all too bad, there’s a nice blend of action and detective work and a confluence of strong and clever minds solving each puzzle, but when they go through this for the 10th time, it starts to get really boring. In between all of this travelling, a bunch of unnecessary assassinations upon circle members happen (pretty periodically if I might say). Not only do we not even really know the people who die, but it happens so much that each death got just a “meh” from me because I simply didn’t care that people kept dying, and tbh the characters seemed to feel the same way as well. This quite random addition to the story made no sense to me and didn’t actually make anything about the book better so I don’t even get why it was added…
Onto my second complaint though, and it’s about the love triangle. That’s right, it rears it’s ugly head in this second book. It’s done so stereotypically too: Avery and Jack start having drama because they’re like kind of a thing but also not and they have differing ideas on how much autonomy Avery should have (read Jack has some control issues…) and of course it’s perfect that there’s another hot guy right there and next thing you know Avery is two seconds away from hooking up with Stellan. Like hold up, please just stop yourselves. And honestly, I think Avery was actually the more bearable one in this case - which is super rare because normally the girl is the one being annoying about love triangles. It’s Jack that’s fucking everything up, and that’s kind of a shame because I really liked him in the first book. By the end, I was just super done with all of them.
Perhaps the only thing saving the book is that the ending is kind of cool and so I’m on the fence about reading the next book. On the one hand, I still think that the series can turn itself around pretty well and have a killer conclusion, but then there’s the disaster that this book was… I don’t know, we’ll see. Just take my word though that you’ll have to work to get through this one.
So I really liked The Conspiracy of Us because it was fun and reminded me of books I loved like the Heist Society and perhaps a bit of A Study in Charlotte too. I specifically praised the development of the Circle, the secret organization that basically ran the world, as a society as well as the LACK of a love triangle. Unfortunately, this book took both of those things and tossed them out the window and that was really quite a shame because the way the last book left off had a lot of potential.
The Conspiracy of Us leaves off with Avery and Jack trying to figure out the whole Napoleon riddle situation and this book starts us off right after the first book. What follows this is basically a series of go to a new city, do some sleuthing around and miraculously find what they’re looking for, move on to the next city which just happens to be the correct place to be and rinse, wash, repeat. I mean each little scene isn’t all too bad, there’s a nice blend of action and detective work and a confluence of strong and clever minds solving each puzzle, but when they go through this for the 10th time, it starts to get really boring. In between all of this travelling, a bunch of unnecessary assassinations upon circle members happen (pretty periodically if I might say). Not only do we not even really know the people who die, but it happens so much that each death got just a “meh” from me because I simply didn’t care that people kept dying, and tbh the characters seemed to feel the same way as well. This quite random addition to the story made no sense to me and didn’t actually make anything about the book better so I don’t even get why it was added…
Onto my second complaint though, and it’s about the love triangle. That’s right, it rears it’s ugly head in this second book. It’s done so stereotypically too: Avery and Jack start having drama because they’re like kind of a thing but also not and they have differing ideas on how much autonomy Avery should have (read Jack has some control issues…) and of course it’s perfect that there’s another hot guy right there and next thing you know Avery is two seconds away from hooking up with Stellan. Like hold up, please just stop yourselves. And honestly, I think Avery was actually the more bearable one in this case - which is super rare because normally the girl is the one being annoying about love triangles. It’s Jack that’s fucking everything up, and that’s kind of a shame because I really liked him in the first book. By the end, I was just super done with all of them.
Perhaps the only thing saving the book is that the ending is kind of cool