A review by brandiraefong
The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall

3.0

Conspiracy theories, secret societies, whirlwind world travel, cute boys...once you suspend your belief a bit (a lot), it's a fun book.

However,

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while I don't mind having to suspend belief while reading, characters still have to act in ways logical to their development. I had a really hard time accepting that Avery would just get on a plane with two strangers and not even contact her mother until much, much later the next day--especially if going to the prom was her idea of breaking the rules. Yes, she wanted to meet her dad, but that much and in that way?

This was also one of those titles that since the main character was learning the set-up along with the reader, there were a lot of info dump passages, and incredibly convenient happenings to advance the plot.

All that being said, if book two were out right now, I'd probably still read it. The ending

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was the worst kind of cliffhanger...no closure of anything, just chop off the scene right in the middle. It's possible to write trilogies without such dramatic and unsatisfying conclusions

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Fun YA read, just don't analyze it too closely.