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A review by knod78
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles
4.0
This completes Task 9: Read a middle grade mystery of Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge.
The book was a silly, supernatural mystery for younger kids. It's funny, I would have read this in elementary school since I loved Nancy Drew and RL Stine's (before Goosebumps), but not Jr. high. By then, I was on to vampires, serial killers, and other supernatural, murdery stuff.
I liked it. I didn't take too well to Otto's character, but he did eventually learn things. I definitely wanted to know more about the Mirror Antique lady and the Ellison girls. I loved the different clock watchers and trying to guess which one they were based on the description. That part of the story was quite creative. The plot was a bit predictable, but it moved through the story and it definitely kept me interested. I certainly would recommend this story for your Jr. High kids, because it has good lessons in it and it's a nice mystery. I will say that the html version I read had lots of spelling, grammar mistakes an editor should have easily caught.
The book was a silly, supernatural mystery for younger kids. It's funny, I would have read this in elementary school since I loved Nancy Drew and RL Stine's (before Goosebumps), but not Jr. high. By then, I was on to vampires, serial killers, and other supernatural, murdery stuff.
I liked it. I didn't take too well to Otto's character, but he did eventually learn things. I definitely wanted to know more about the Mirror Antique lady and the Ellison girls. I loved the different clock watchers and trying to guess which one they were based on the description. That part of the story was quite creative. The plot was a bit predictable, but it moved through the story and it definitely kept me interested. I certainly would recommend this story for your Jr. High kids, because it has good lessons in it and it's a nice mystery. I will say that the html version I read had lots of spelling, grammar mistakes an editor should have easily caught.