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melodier93 's review for:
The Secret of the Old Clock
by Carolyn Keene
(2.5 stars) Somehow I’ve never read a Nancy Drew book before this?
I think I expected something closer to Agatha Christie. The mystery, if you can call it that, moved extremely slowly without many twists and turns. There were a lot of convenient coincidences, and whenever I thought there would be a complication it was easily resolved. Nancy is basically perfect in ever way, which is occasionally pretty great for a 1930 heroine (she fixes her own car! She uses physics to escape sticky situations!) but also gets old fast. There were so many things I thought were setting up sinister plots (flat tires! Dead chickens!) that ended up just being…events. Oh, and for a couple chapters it gets REAL RACIST to the point that it was borderline unreadable.
I’m going to give the next one a try, but I suspect these 1930s ones might only be fun if you grew up on them.
I think I expected something closer to Agatha Christie. The mystery, if you can call it that, moved extremely slowly without many twists and turns. There were a lot of convenient coincidences, and whenever I thought there would be a complication it was easily resolved. Nancy is basically perfect in ever way, which is occasionally pretty great for a 1930 heroine (she fixes her own car! She uses physics to escape sticky situations!) but also gets old fast. There were so many things I thought were setting up sinister plots (flat tires! Dead chickens!) that ended up just being…events. Oh, and for a couple chapters it gets REAL RACIST to the point that it was borderline unreadable.
I’m going to give the next one a try, but I suspect these 1930s ones might only be fun if you grew up on them.