A review by breakfastgrey
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages by Trenton Lee Stewart

2.0

I didn't hate this book. I just didn't particularly like it either. The action scene where Kate faces down the Ten Men at an abandoned fair was amazing, but the rest of the book was just there. It was pretty heavy on nostalgia that was wasted on me since I've forgotten most of the details of any of the books beyond the first. Combined with a low stakes plot (that gets plot twisted into a nonexistent stakes plot) that is ridiculous at best, I just didn't care as I slogged through endless pages of discussions, after school special level teenaged angst, and descriptions of maps. Between this and the prequel, it makes me question if the original trilogy was any good to begin with.