by Catherine Jinks
I don't...I'm honestly not even certain why I started the second book immediately after finishing this one. I'm going to blame the fact that when I "closed" this one, it was right there and I didn't have to ponder the rest of my eLibrary to determine what was up next.Don't get me wrong, this book i...
I did not like this as much as I expected to.
Such an odd book, but once I got started, I hated to put it down. I think I was expecting something more satirical, a little comic book over-the-topness. But there's none of that. Jinks plays it absolutely straight: Cadel is a genius, and, it turns out, the son of an evil genius. That's the str...
This was good. In the end I liked the premise a tiny bit more than the execution, but it was good. It could have been trimmed by about a third, there was a lot of explaining what the protagonist's thought process during situations when it was very clear what his thought process would be. Also there ...
This novel tells the story of a boy who goes to a school where the students learn to be evil. I thought that the plot had the potential to be much funnier and more interesting than it turned out to be. Also, I did not like the fact that there were so many random deaths in this book. So many people d...