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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
2.0

Truly devastating!!

This is definitely going in my worst read of the year category. I don't understand the hype around this book. I mean It's poorly written, had no plot and the mystery part was hardly convincing. Characters were flat, two dimensional and had no personality at all. And for this very reason it was very hard to distinguish between them because they all sounded the same. Author tried really hard to give them some character, like forcing one to be gay another to be vegan or something, but it didn't work out. They all read like the same person. I personally think that it didn't work because there was no character development, there was only info dumping. We were being told that this character is gay and this character is famous bla bla but we didn't get the chance to truly know these characters.

Mystery part that our protagonist came to solve was weak, and she ended up barely solving a totally different and irrelevant issue.

Ending was bad. It ended on a cheap cliffhanger that made absolutely no sense and didn't fit with the story and overall theme of the book.

It was very disappointing. Sorry!