You can pick up this book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-million, Book Depository, or your local independent bookstore.'A genre-bending, heart-pounding middle-grade romp into a potential future. The third book seems to be centered around superheroes, so I am happy about that. I don’t think I enjoyed this installment as much as the first one, but it wasn’t bad, and with how it ends I am definitely intrigued to see how the series will continue from here. I don’t know what to expect from this, and that’s fun. And the whole meta book within a book plots in this were honestly a bit trippy. I liked that with this story having a book character who was the descendant of Sherlock Holmes, there also inevitably ended up being a descendant of Moriarty. I thought I had figured things out, but I was only partly right.

I’m not a super fan of mystery, but this one intrigued me. A lot of this book’s plot and format follow what you would expect from a mystery tale.

We bounce back and forth from Owen and Kiel’s shenanigans to the problems that Bethany faces on her own. The rest of the book was spent with the characters trying to piece together the details of what happened in those chapters. The first nine chapters of this book were hilariously entertaining–about 97% of those chapters were redacted, which was amusing, and it took like 1 minute to read all of them. Maybe some mysteries just shouldn’t be solved… My Thoughts But is she imprisoned by more than just chains and a locked door? What’s she hiding from Owen and Kiel? How did Kiel Gnomenfoot, boy magician, lose all of his magic? Where’s Bethany, their half-fictional friend? And who’s the annoying guy wearing the question mark mask and Sherlock Holmes hat, taunting Owen and Kiel that Bethany is in grave danger?īethany is trapped in a hidden room that’s slowly filling with water, and she can’t escape until her friends find her.

So how exactly did he end up in one with his memory erased? And that’s far from the only question. There are too many hidden clues, twists that make no sense, and an ending you never see coming. Owen Conners would never jump into a mystery. Owen, Kiel, and Bethany confront secrets, stolen memories, and some very familiar faces in the follow-up to The Story Thieves-which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal-from the bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy. I have definitely loved reading a bunch of Middle Grade books here in March, and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to accomplish at least some reading over the weekend.īut for now, let’s just jump into this review, much like these characters jump into books. Fun fact before I jump into today’s review: I already found a discount copy of the third book in this series at Half-Price Books and picked it up because I’m really enjoying it.

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