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A review by inkhearted
Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, a Very Strange Adventure by Lissa Evans
4.0
Young Stuart Horten feels alone and restless when his family uproots him to move to a new town until he stumbles across a magical family mystery.
Great read the kids who like mysteries with clever kids, codes, and puzzles. Reads like the Mysterious Benedict Society only with better movement, which I appreciate, and the Mr. Lemoncello books, but less reliant on homages to other classics.
The villains are almost Boris-and-Natasha style mustache-twirling caricatures but good fun. My only complaint relates to Horten's parents. His father and his mother feel largely out of touch and odd in an annoying, not in an endearing way. Evans doesn't seem to know what to do with them.
Great read the kids who like mysteries with clever kids, codes, and puzzles. Reads like the Mysterious Benedict Society only with better movement, which I appreciate, and the Mr. Lemoncello books, but less reliant on homages to other classics.
The villains are almost Boris-and-Natasha style mustache-twirling caricatures but good fun. My only complaint relates to Horten's parents. His father and his mother feel largely out of touch and odd in an annoying, not in an endearing way. Evans doesn't seem to know what to do with them.