Author: Carolyn Keene
Title: The Mystery of the Jade Tiger (Nancy Drew #104)
Language: Estonian
Format: hardcover
Rating: 2½ stars
No of pages: 189
Reading challenge: Go to the library. Find the shelf where are the author's whose surname starts with the same letter as your first name. Start from the very beginning of the letter, count as many books as old you are. Take the book that corresponds with your age.
Read: 05.01 - 06.01.2018
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In this all-new adventure, Nancy travels to California to investigate a series of break-ins at the home of her father's old friend Terry Kirkland. A Vietnam vet, he came away from that country with a trunk full of memories, but unbeknownst to him, the trunk contains an exotic secret that now threatens to destroy his family.
My first Nancy Drew book and I must say that I'm not all that impressed since the story seemed simplified and just plain silly to me.
I wonder if I had liked the book more if I had started with the Nancy Drew series a bit earlier - both age-wise, for instance, had I been 10 years old, I would've probably liked it better, and also had I started with the 14th book in the series instead of the 104th, the characters would've maybe made more sense to me and maybe I could've gotten the humour behind it all too. The way it was now, the story just felt too simple and simplified for my likes. I didn't understand all that well who all those side characters were and to be honest, I may or may not have mixed a few of them up a couple of times.
But would I recommend the book? Maybe to people who like their mystery stories short and really simple, otherwise stick to the classics such as Agatha Christie.
But would I recommend the book? Maybe to people who like their mystery stories short and really simple, otherwise stick to the classics such as Agatha Christie.
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