A review by katieinca
The Book of Peril by Melissa McShane

2.0

Fast moving, generally enjoyable, not that well written series about the oracular bookstore and its custodian continues. Helena moves out of her parents' basement, which is good and helps ease the impression that these are targeted at 12 year olds (not that there's wrong with books targeted at 12 year olds). The ending of this one was pretty unsatisfying, in a "we caught a culprit, but we still don't know what all was going on here" way that I assume means more will be revealed in later books. Worse, the culprit we did catch was some guy we'd never heard of, which is poor mystery plotting.