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Books and toys and shiny things
Mar. 11th, 2013 09:54 pm*dances* My AG stuff came today. Pretty early in the day, too. Not that I've put any outfits on anyone yet, but I did peek at everything. It's all so pretty!
To refresh the memory, we acquired the following shiny things:
( Shiny things! )
Overall, I'm very happy with my order. Usually there's something that, upon arrival, I think "man, why did I get X when I should've gotten Y" but this time I was happy with each unveiling. I guess dithering back and forth for a couple of weeks worked out in the end.
Book review time! Cass has a free trial of Amazon Prime and she let me put in a book order while the new mysteries are (were?) 3.75 each. I bought Caroline's new mystery (shown), Julie's, and Marie-Grace's. I've read Caroline's and it was... Well. You'll see.
In the land of adult AG collectors, not everyone reads the books. I think this is a shame but what can you do about it? Those that do read the books, however, mostly agree on one thing lately: Caroline's books are fantastic. And they really, really are. This mystery is no exception. It picks up almost immediately where book #6 leaves off, but instead of Caroline still being at her uncle's farm, she's now back home for a little bit.
Shortly after she arrives home for the Independence Day celebration, a friend of her father's shows up at their door. Caroline's father is thrilled as he'd been told his friend died and obviously this was not the case. Yay! When Mr. Abbot realizes his friend has no job, he quickly offers him one down at the shipyard.
As the title implies, things begin to go wonky shortly thereafter. The book is written so that you keep telling yourself "just a few pages more" and it's difficult to put down. Not every chapter ends on a cliffhanger, but it's so easy to slip into Caroline's world that you don't need cliffhangers to keep the momentum going.
I'm not a big fan of mysteries that don't allow you to solve them as a reader, and luckily Traitor encourages you to follow along with Caroline as she attempts to solve the mystery before something horrible happens. There are fairly high stakes, what with a war going on, and there's a moment when those stakes really hit Caroline and her family. Younger readers may have a bit of a hard time with it.
( Spoiler. )
About the only bad thing I can say about the book is that sometimes the dialog seems too modern, though I have no real way of knowing since I'm not a ten year old in 1812. :P
Seriously, a great read.
To refresh the memory, we acquired the following shiny things:
( Shiny things! )
Overall, I'm very happy with my order. Usually there's something that, upon arrival, I think "man, why did I get X when I should've gotten Y" but this time I was happy with each unveiling. I guess dithering back and forth for a couple of weeks worked out in the end.
Book review time! Cass has a free trial of Amazon Prime and she let me put in a book order while the new mysteries are (were?) 3.75 each. I bought Caroline's new mystery (shown), Julie's, and Marie-Grace's. I've read Caroline's and it was... Well. You'll see.
In the land of adult AG collectors, not everyone reads the books. I think this is a shame but what can you do about it? Those that do read the books, however, mostly agree on one thing lately: Caroline's books are fantastic. And they really, really are. This mystery is no exception. It picks up almost immediately where book #6 leaves off, but instead of Caroline still being at her uncle's farm, she's now back home for a little bit.
Shortly after she arrives home for the Independence Day celebration, a friend of her father's shows up at their door. Caroline's father is thrilled as he'd been told his friend died and obviously this was not the case. Yay! When Mr. Abbot realizes his friend has no job, he quickly offers him one down at the shipyard.
As the title implies, things begin to go wonky shortly thereafter. The book is written so that you keep telling yourself "just a few pages more" and it's difficult to put down. Not every chapter ends on a cliffhanger, but it's so easy to slip into Caroline's world that you don't need cliffhangers to keep the momentum going.
I'm not a big fan of mysteries that don't allow you to solve them as a reader, and luckily Traitor encourages you to follow along with Caroline as she attempts to solve the mystery before something horrible happens. There are fairly high stakes, what with a war going on, and there's a moment when those stakes really hit Caroline and her family. Younger readers may have a bit of a hard time with it.
( Spoiler. )
About the only bad thing I can say about the book is that sometimes the dialog seems too modern, though I have no real way of knowing since I'm not a ten year old in 1812. :P
Seriously, a great read.