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A review by littledevonnook
Who Done It? by Jon Scieszka
3.0
My overall thoughts:
1. This book has a brilliant premise. We are told of an awful editor named Herman Mildew who invites all of his authors to a party but at this party it is announced that he has been found dead. The book then leads on to give us eighty different alibis from an assortment of young adult authors as to why they couldn't of killed Herman Mildew.
2. I enjoyed the variety in accounts from the different authors, some simply wrote their alibi whilst others used other means such as illustrations or Twitter conversations to back up their stories.
3. It was quite disjointed, I never felt like the story was getting anywhere or that I was coming to any conclusions in my own mind as to what was going on.
4. I may have enjoyed it more had I known who more of the authors were but as I only recognized a few (e.g. Lemony Snicket, John Green) I found it difficult to connect with and get excited about other authors parts in the story.
5. All in all I think this is a good read but by the end it became very repetitive and I found I was reading similar alibis over and over!
1. This book has a brilliant premise. We are told of an awful editor named Herman Mildew who invites all of his authors to a party but at this party it is announced that he has been found dead. The book then leads on to give us eighty different alibis from an assortment of young adult authors as to why they couldn't of killed Herman Mildew.
2. I enjoyed the variety in accounts from the different authors, some simply wrote their alibi whilst others used other means such as illustrations or Twitter conversations to back up their stories.
3. It was quite disjointed, I never felt like the story was getting anywhere or that I was coming to any conclusions in my own mind as to what was going on.
4. I may have enjoyed it more had I known who more of the authors were but as I only recognized a few (e.g. Lemony Snicket, John Green) I found it difficult to connect with and get excited about other authors parts in the story.
5. All in all I think this is a good read but by the end it became very repetitive and I found I was reading similar alibis over and over!