Murders in the Rue Morgue would've been a lot shorter if only the police ACTUALLY DID THEIR JOB.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue would've been a lot shorter if only the police ACTUALLY DID THEIR JOB.
Dupin wasn't a genius. He only looked around and gathered the evidence the police didn't.
I dont normally make honorary posts about TV shows (I dont even update my tumblr anymore.) But Cruel Summer reeled me in and I finished the show in about two days. I cant even remember the last time I was able to finish a TV series.
Mad props to the writers for writing this! This series deserves more love. It not only subverted the popular girl vs the nerdy girl trope, but it also handled sensitive topics with much nuance, showed us that there could be multiple truths and layers in one story, and the gradual unraveling of a sociopath.
What made it creepy was not the final episode, but how pathological liars get away with manipulating and not having to face the consequences.
MJ’s The Hand on the Wall
(Spoiler’s aheadddd)
I am speaking in behalf of all the readers who’ve guessed who the culprit was after finishing the second book. What makes a good mystery is that you have to deduce for yourself who the suspect is. If you can put two and two together without much mental gymnastics at all, then it means the story is predictable and the author isn’t like Agatha Christie at all.
The suspects all had to be either Quinn, Larry or Charles. When it was established that only the council knew about the codicil then my money was either on Charles or Quinn. When it was revealed in the finale that it was Charles, I wasn’t surprised at all. Of course, the culprit couldn’t be any one other than members of the faculty or staff.
The entire trilogy had good hooks, baits and red herrings, but the solution was flat and predictable. I would even like to apply as an editor for Maureen Johnson. Because aside from the fact that there were punctuation errors and ACTUAL PLOT HOLES (more of that in a bit), there were also quite a few loose ends that Maureen did not tie up. Like the implication that David and Ellie may be related to the people who went to Ellingham in the past.
As for the plothole I’d like to be answered....How did Stevie know about the trunk Alice was in when it was only Leonard Holmes and George Marsh who knew about it in the 1930s? George Marsh died without ever admitting anything to anyone except Leonard and no one could have seen it back then aside from those two. So for Stevie to know it was Charles based on the trunk was impossible.
Im serious, Maureen Johnson. let me be your editor going forward
P.S Does anyone here have Goodreads accounts? let me follow you there!
What I think- Truly Devious
When I started reading this book, I had a low bar for it (as I usually did when reading YA novels). In the end, I was conflicted. It subverted my expectations and left me wanting more but at the same time, I couldn't ignore what I didn't like.
The book has two interwoven mysteries-- the past 1936 unsolved case and then the present one. That being said, both are amazing and left me wanting to so-desperately buy the second book despite having no money (haha.) The past mystery is a lot more compelling to read than the second one. What I didn't like about the second one was how it started halfway into the book...leaving just enough pages for the author to give it a half-baked conclusion.
Stevie Bell, the protagonist, didn't actually do much investigating as much as navigating the complicated waters of high school. Which left me wondering, is this a coming-of-age novel, or a mystery novel? Because in all honesty, it read more like a coming-of-age novel. The whole sideplot with David and Edward King was also weird and made the story disjointed.
Here are my random thoughts on Unearthed.
-weird exposition typical of YA novels. straightforward prose, no emotions— MC just blandly narrating things.
-abrupt change in characters’ tempers. they either suddenly get pissed or sad on the verge of crying. amelia’s prone to quick spurts of anger even before the truth about what jules did was revealed.
-yeah I get it, amelia has blue and pink highlights and it’s cool. no need to emphasize it several times during the first few chapters. get over it, jules.
-this works better if the story is in a third person perspective. the first few chapters are filled with awkward expositions from both sides. either so many things are happening at once or some paragraphs are redundant because the other MC has already explained it. let’s not even talk about how the Centaurius, Explorer IV and the Undying are all just thrown in the book.
-spoiler. can’t remember if this has an explanation and I simply forgot it, but why in the world did Elliot Addison reveal all classified information on live TV if he wanted to keep everyone safe?
-amelia buying out her sister seemed so much like a truth bomb when it could’ve been revealed to Jules earlier.
-most YA novels depict adults as either 1D villains or 1D idiots. unearthed is no exception.
-jules keeps on telling how he’s a genius. if I met someone like him irl, idk if id be able to last the whole day alive.
-life or death situations are almost always punctured by teeny bopper scenes. case in point, chap 27. there’s no sense of urgency between amelia and jules. they stare at each other, make cute remarks like the earth isn’t in danger.
-why did the undying go through all the fuss of creating puzzles in the huge temples and spaceships when they can just invade earth straight-on??
-the book at least has a cool cover.
Thoughts on SW: Catalyst, a Rogue One Novel
This book is boring.
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Delaying The Rise of Skywalker to 2020 would have given Disney a surefire $1 billion grosser for next year while presumingly delivering a le
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“Somehow Palpatine has returned”
Everyone at the cinema:
me, every time i see guy ritchie making a movie that’s not the tmfu sequel:
Say It With Me:
Man From Uncle doesn’t get enough credit.
PERFECT!
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