There is certainly room for a follow-up, but if you don't read it you won't feel you've missed something. The important thing to remember is that clever kids like clever tales.
Remove some plod-along-ploddy sections and tighten up a few narrative side tracks and I think you have yourself a big winner for both YA's and those YA at heart. Ignoring the size for a moment yes, yes, it matters and we will return to it It has that cozy feel of well-mannered prim and properness. Together, they must gather clues, piece together puzzles and solve the mystery of Mr.
To give a sense of the tone and the prose, here is a brief excerpt from the book that I found amusing.
You can bathe as often as you like or not at all, provided you're clean every day in class. You can eat whatever and whenever you want, so long as it's during meal hours in the cafeteria.
You're allowed to keep the lights on in your rooms as late as you wish until ten o'clock each night. And you can go wherever you want around the Institute, so long as you keep to the paths and the yellow-tiled corridors. Okay, onto the whole size thing now.
I thought the beginning of the book dealing with the recruitment of the four children and the introduction of Mr. Benedict was superb and I thought I might have found a new winner to add to my YA favorites. All good so far. Boredom did poke his head in at me a number of times and I could feel him staring at me during stretches of the story.
If you chop a chunk of this portion off, I think you have a much better story without losing any of the good stuff. Overall, I liked it but with the above reservations. Gregory Baird. It is written in the same Dickens-meets-Roald-Dahl style although it does emphasize Dahl's whimsy over Dickens' occasional bleakness. It features an oddball cast with a broad spectrum of eccentricities and unique physical features. The plot even centers around a group of kids from orphanages attempting to foil the dastardly plans of a villain who seeks to exploit them in his mad quest for domination.
There are good qualities to be found. The first hundred pages or so are very charming, managing to capture the better aspects of its inspirations with ease. Stewart is certainly a capable writer with a great imagination and sense of wit.
But once the titular group has been established and sets off on its first mission things begin to go downhill at an alarming rate. First, things start to get a little too quirky The villain's dastardly plot for world domination is what now?
Second, said quirks become limiting and mildly irritating could Constance please stop grumbling for just a second? And while the use of narcolepsy is only slightly amusing at first it gets tiring when both the group's benefactor and the villain keep passing out at key moments.
Stewart really should have re-thought that as a character trait. Third, you realize that the book is overly long and overly complex. Yet somehow, despite the myriad twists, turns, and complications, the M. For crying out loud, how long is this charade going to get dragged out, anyway?
Then comes the hot mess of an ending. I don't want to spoil anything for those who intend to read this book, so let's just say that the realizations come a little too easily, the escapes are a touch too clean, and the happy endings aren't tacked on so much as beaten in with a sledgehammer. Yet Stewart must also have realized that if he intends this book to become a series he can't tie everything up too neatly, so naturally things are open-ended enough to allow for a sequel. I can't wait to watch the other episodes.
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Subsequently, Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer were confirmed as the showrunners for the series. But should the series continue into another season, that might not remain to be the case. In February , Tony Hale was announced to have been cast in the dual roles of twin brothers Mr.
Benedict and Mr. On May 20, , Disney released a trailer for the series. The series premiered 25 June and is scheduled to run until 6 August Benedict Mr.
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