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A review by harpygon
Ninth Key by Jenny Carroll
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.25
I picked this book up because I wanted a quick, easy read and this delivered flawlessly. The entire text is written as if Susanna (the MC) was telling the story to you, using simple and teenager-like language and sentence structures.
Susanna is weirldy boy-obsessed but she is 16 so who am I to judge her for that (eventhough maybe a guys voice shouldn‘t make you overlook their uncle‘s / father‘s serial murders… ) She carries an „I‘m so hopeless, no boy will ever like me“ attitude which was a little annoying, but she was called out for it in canon and is in my opinion just a case of a teen being bad at perceiving herself correctly.
The existent family dynamics were really fun and interesting to me, Susanna‘s discomfort and problems to slot herself into the new system were really well depicted. Her friends are kinda not people, uhm, in general everyone but her (and even her only if you squint) aren‘t really three dimensional character's, but this is a young adult serial mystery novel and I don‘t expect them to be.
For the mystery…. it‘s fun as well. Twists, turns, a few teenage blunder‘s, half-thought-out plans which do have consequencesThe Vampire bait and switch though!!! I don‘t quite know how in the very end she figured out that Doc‘s nickname was Red but I‘m sick and just probably overread something so…
In total, this book was nothing special, nothing I will ever pick up again or reread but it was a quick, simple and rather fun book.
Susanna is weirldy boy-obsessed but she is 16 so who am I to judge her for that (
The existent family dynamics were really fun and interesting to me, Susanna‘s discomfort and problems to slot herself into the new system were really well depicted. Her friends are kinda not people, uhm, in general everyone but her (and even her only if you squint) aren‘t really three dimensional character's, but this is a young adult serial mystery novel and I don‘t expect them to be.
For the mystery…. it‘s fun as well. Twists, turns, a few teenage blunder‘s, half-thought-out plans which do have consequences
In total, this book was nothing special, nothing I will ever pick up again or reread but it was a quick, simple and rather fun book.