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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...