A review by cardaisy
Ninth Key by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I can feel myself entering my born again Meg Cabot stan era. Anyway, this was a lot of fun!

Also, I just need to say that I think maybe my favourite parts of these books are when Suze takes a phone call only for it to be interrupted by a million other people also calling her to discuss other things

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Body shaming, Terminal illness, and Animal death

Mental illness/psychosis:

there's a character who believes that he's a vampire, it's also implied at the end of that book that this was brought on by his brother dosing him with some kind of drug after the death of his wife. Lots of discussion of him being a "nut job" and things like that.

// gun violence: the main character is threatened with a gun, but it is not actually used // terminal illness & death of a parent: both in the past

relates to two different characters' mothers, who both died before the events of this book