Diana Peterfreund
Auteur de For Darkness Shows the Stars
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de Diana Peterfreund
The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn 2 exemplaires
One & Only (Canton, #1) 1 exemplaire
Poe in D.C. (Secret Society Girl, #1.1) 1 exemplaire
Powerless (Secret Society Girl, #3.2) 1 exemplaire
Poe at the Gates (Secret Society Girl, #2.3) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume (2007) — Contributeur — 332 exemplaires
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five (2011) — Contributeur — 148 exemplaires
Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series (2009) — Contributeur — 106 exemplaires
The World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues (2007) — Contributeur — 66 exemplaires
Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (2008) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1979-01-20
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Tampa, Florida, USA
- Études
- Yale University
- Professions
- novelist
young adult writer
children's book author
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Austenland (1)
2010s (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 27
- Aussi par
- 16
- Membres
- 3,712
- Popularité
- #6,827
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 334
- ISBN
- 80
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 12
Blackbrook Academy, Maine, Contemporary (p.2019)
1 Prestigious Science Academy
1 Winter Storm Surge, leaving
11 Students and Staff taking refuge in
1 Former Mansion Turned Reform School Turned Girls' Dorm
6 Characters inspired by the Original Clue (7 if you count Headmaster Boddy)
Several References to the Classic Clue Weapons
2 Secret Passages (with at least 1 very clever entrance)
Rotating PoV
1 Broken Stained Glass Window
1 Dead Bod(d)y
Terribly Done Mopping
2 Secret Identities
2 Potentially Career-Ending Secrets
The Short Version:
A fun middle-grade/YA mystery inspired by the board game (and the 1985 movie) with clever backstories tying characters to their game counterparts and some of the more outrageous names being tied to more believable last names. Colonel Mustard thus become Sam "Mustard" Maestor - a new arrival fresh from military school. Beth Picach is a tennis star who dyes the ends of her hair blue. Professor Plum becomes a research-obsessed science genius who barely looks beyond his test tubes. Mr. Green becomes townie and scholarship student Vaughn Green - who helps with maintenance and janitorial work in addition to classes. Mrs. White is the dorm proctor.
I liked this, and I enjoyed how all of the secrets flying around leaves plot for the sequels. It's fairly lightweight, but makes full use of the secret passages and familiar lay-out of the mansion. I will happily read the next.… (plus d'informations)