A review by annaki_laila
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Did not finish book.

[DNF] at page 78. After I started reading this I put it down for about a week (maybe more, actually) and just never picked it back up again. The writing was ok, with good humour in places, but I just struggled with the time settings. I've never read anything else by Maureen Johnson, but just based on what I read here, I feel her writing is better suited to the 1930s setting that parts of this book is written in, as opposed to the modern day setting which most of this book is written in. Something about the chapters written in the present didn't feel modern to me, and I can't quite put my finger on what. Anyway, other than that, I just wasn't particularly interested in any of the characters (especially the main character) or the plot, thus I never went back to reading it. It's a shame because I thought it sounded quite interesting from the blurb, but I just couldn't get into it.