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A review by tcbueti
Beetle Boy by M.G. Leonard
4.0
Very suspenseful and exciting. 101 Dalmatians meets Home Alone. Solid writing. You feel Darkus' (Bakugan character; Urban Dictionary says good guy with a dark side) pain when his dad's missing, and during rescue. And very educational re: beetles, natch. A few bits too much, but listing them all IS sort of fascinating. Actually wished there were photos!
Lucretia is a super creepy villainess. The kids are great sidekicks, as are the beetles.
P201 "what happens if you genetically enhance the most adaptable species on the planet...most dangerous question I'd ever heard" (uncle max).
Max: Barty (Darkus' dad) Adventures in thought, in his mind. P197 type of person who changes history
Should scientific research belong to everyone? How does it get funded??
A few plot glitches: why didn't Novak end up in "the cells"? I thought her conversion was a bit abrupt, especially if her mom had been torturing her with bugs. But now I'm worried about her--why isn't Darkus? Also, Lucretia's transformation was ignored/dropped every time it came up. HELLO!!
Remaining questions: How's Novak? Will Gerard the butler keep helping her? Will she go to the private school he suggested to her mother? What's Lucretia's plan? Why did she want to kill, not capture, the beetles? Why is she turning (herself?) into a one ? (Does it have anything to do with the car crash 1 year ago (p102)? Why did she have Pickering & Humphrey sign wills? How DID the beetles get next door?
Food: cranberry (Humphrey's sauce), dung snacks ( truffles?) bananas
Lucretia is a super creepy villainess. The kids are great sidekicks, as are the beetles.
P201 "what happens if you genetically enhance the most adaptable species on the planet...most dangerous question I'd ever heard" (uncle max).
Max: Barty (Darkus' dad) Adventures in thought, in his mind. P197 type of person who changes history
Should scientific research belong to everyone? How does it get funded??
A few plot glitches: why didn't Novak end up in "the cells"? I thought her conversion was a bit abrupt, especially if her mom had been torturing her with bugs. But now I'm worried about her--why isn't Darkus? Also, Lucretia's transformation was ignored/dropped every time it came up. HELLO!!
Remaining questions: How's Novak? Will Gerard the butler keep helping her? Will she go to the private school he suggested to her mother? What's Lucretia's plan? Why did she want to kill, not capture, the beetles? Why is she turning (herself?) into a one ? (Does it have anything to do with the car crash 1 year ago (p102)? Why did she have Pickering & Humphrey sign wills? How DID the beetles get next door?
Food: cranberry (Humphrey's sauce), dung snacks ( truffles?) bananas