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A review by oashackelford
Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson
4.0
Stevie Bell wants to be a detective. Not only that, but someday she'd like to work for the FBI. In order to start working on her dream she applies to the Ellingham Academy, a school where there is no set curriculum, just an expectation that the learner's will apply themselves. This serves two purposes, that Stevie will be able to get away from her overly conservative parents, and that she will be closer to solving the Ellingham murders that happened somewhere on the estate. As she tries to dig in a student dies on campus and Stevie has a chance to try and understand what happened first-hand as cops take on the case.
I liked this book a lot because I thought that the mystery that it set up was really enticing and I thought that it was going to be wrapped up at the end of the novel like most mystery novels. I am actually really glad that I am coming to this series late because Maureen Johnson did not wrap up the mystery at the end of the book and actually left me with more questions than I started with. I am excited to read the next novel to hopefully find out what happens, but I'm not holding my breath that I will find out in book 2 because there are four novels in the series. I would recommend this book if you love mysteries and you can be patient, but I would not recommend it if you like a mystery of the week type set up and you will want some kind of resolution at the end of the book.
I liked this book a lot because I thought that the mystery that it set up was really enticing and I thought that it was going to be wrapped up at the end of the novel like most mystery novels. I am actually really glad that I am coming to this series late because Maureen Johnson did not wrap up the mystery at the end of the book and actually left me with more questions than I started with. I am excited to read the next novel to hopefully find out what happens, but I'm not holding my breath that I will find out in book 2 because there are four novels in the series. I would recommend this book if you love mysteries and you can be patient, but I would not recommend it if you like a mystery of the week type set up and you will want some kind of resolution at the end of the book.