I wanted to like this book more, but I just didn't. The beginning started off very well. Penelope Lumley, a fifteen year old graduate from Swanburne Academy is on her way to, hopefully a new job. Penelope is very nervous, this being her first job interview. When she arrives at Ashton Place, she i...
Trying to get away from the temptation to listen to pop music in the car, we started listening to audio books instead.Our kids so enjoyed this selection, that they actually begged to go for rides in the car. With all of the twists and turns in this story, it was a lot of fun to hear my kids tryi...
This book picks right up where the prequel finished. Wasting no time, the incorrigibles and Miss Lumley are off to London for more adventures as well as more mystery. Even more questions and clues are brought up in the book than the previous, but hardly anything is answered. Some of the asides we...
OK--it's not earth-shaking and it's not going to change your life, but it is witty, warm, and a scream. There are some simple undercurrents that reinforce the values of friendship and what home really means. Also, I love stories that walk me around London. I've got to go back and read the 1st boo...
Book starts out slow and almost dull and boring, yet is the backdrop to almost explaining and understanding the world that Jessamine lives in. This comes into full view when Weed arrives on their doorstep and Jessamine nurses him back to good health and becomes his confidant. This two grow closer...
It was a great and exciting book to read. Sadly disappointing.Slow.Nothing to hold on to: found no grip.
At the midpoint of this series the questions are still adding up and very few if any are being answered which is starting to be a bit tiresome, I'm hoping we will begin to get more than questions in the next volume. I also feel that while book one's story was fairly capable of standing on its own...
This is a review of the first 4 books of this series, taken as a whole. They each felt like a very short, incomplete book on their own - like sections of a larger novel. Although Wood still did a great job of wrapping up current action and mysteries in each book, while leading you towards more qu...
it is very, very cute. it is about the X factor (love), teenage girls (sex kittens), teenage boys (dawgs), and the private high school they attend (the pound). the book focuses on a science fair project about the X factor...what it is, how it works, how someone knows if they have it, etc. the gir...
Emily and Phillip have been to see their favorite musical, Aurora (fictional), over a hundred times, borrowing money from Emily's Grandma Rose every weekend so they can stand in line to get the rush tickets. And then they find out that their show is closing.For the most part, I get these kids. Th...