To the mystery, not the subplot? - 50% - 70% Special suspect? - chronically deranged person Misc. How difficult to spot villain? - Very difficult-no foreshadowing/clues - Moderately Challenging Time/era of story: - 2000+ (Present) (people, objects, places) 15% Tone of story - very humorous
of violence and chases 10% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 35% How society works & physical descript. Sticks & Stones Abby Cooper Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Juvenile Fiction - 288 pages 60 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when.
Abby and I just aren’t meant to be pals.Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. While I enjoyed the latter part of the book, I don’t plan on reading more of this particular series. Rather than droning on about her intuitive telephone and how she can tell if someone is lying, the story focuses on moving the plot line along as the investigation picks up. On the bright side, everything picked up a little over halfway through the book. Comments like “After this I wouldn’t neglect to answer my intuitive phone calls for a very long time”, “In retrospect…” or her spirit pals chanting “Liar Liar” when someone lies had me throwing up my hands and shouting “SPOILER ALERT!” To be fair to the author, this is purely my preference and I’ve raged about foreshadowing in other books I’ve read, including Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons.
It reminds me of shoddy narration from true crime shows. Kettle.įinally the biggest issue: blatant foreshadowing. Ever since she was a baby, the words people use to describe Elyse have instantly appeared on. Also it’s unfair to expect them to look past the stereotypes surrounding psychics when you, dear Abby, accuse all law enforcement of being rigid, analytical types that live in a box. Buy Sticks & Stones by Abby Cooper for 20.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Abby, you can’t be surprised that they don’t believe you considering psychics in general make up a very small amount of the population. I wanted to slap the cuffs on her just for being obnoxious. The police dont take her powers all that seriously, but the killer does, putting. Abby has a tendency to fly off the handle and truly, mouthing off at detectives is not intelligent. When the client is brutally murdered, Abby wants to do what she can to help. We were warned at the beginning when Abby mentioned that she didn’t act her age, and I really should had steeled myself because goodness did she make me angry. Kissing “the bejesus out of her” (really?) but then saying they need to slow down because he isn’t sure about all this psychic stuff.Ībby was juvenile and hot headed.
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