melbeereading 's review for:

The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

5.0

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This might actually be a 5. 

I was nervous things wouldn’t be wrapped up well, but everything met my expectations and I would say even exceeded them in areas. I didn’t have any questions at the end besides where the heck do the next two books go and why were they written. 

I appreciated the further development of Janelle’s character and Nate is such a fantastic and unique character to me. David ended up falling a little flat for me, but I think that had more to do with where his storyline went than the actual character. 

I feel like I noticed the writing a lot more in this one and really enjoyed it. The American political commentary? Kinda ew. I thought this would have more meaning to the actual story. It doesn’t. I don’t know how I feel about the random The Summer I Turned Pretty towards the end. What a cringe moment lol.