{"id":136,"date":"2015-04-10T22:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=136"},"modified":"2015-04-10T22:19:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:19:22","slug":"all-the-lovely-bad-ones-by-mary-downing-hahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"All The Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Title<\/strong>: All The Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
\nScored a<\/strong>: C+
\nStatus<\/strong>: Finished!<\/p>\n

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Found this book as a recommended other when I was purchasing The Dollhouse Murders<\/em>. And while I don’t regret buying this book, and would still do it if I knew what I know now about it, I couldn’t give it a very high score.<\/p>\n

Plot: A brother and sister are staying at their grandmother’s B&B for the summer. They decide to pretend to be ghosts to bring more business and in the process wake up the real ghosts.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problems with this book was one minor thing and one major thing.<\/p>\n

The minor was whenever it would delve into referencing real things, like Harry Potter<\/em>, or the Murder at the Vicarage<\/em> it stood out like a sore thumb. In fact, the Murder at the Vicarage scene, where a woman purchases the book, is overly long and makes no sense in the context of the story to even be there for that amount of space. I mean, I’m a big fan of that book, but it was odd. Coupled with the fact that previously in the same scene there was a heavy bit of foreshadowing that is immediately forgotten by the rest of the book and never comes to pass, bits like that were just out of place.<\/p>\n

The big problem? The conflict and suspense runs out two thirds in, when it’s announced exactly what’s going on and how they’ll solve it and after that it’s just a by the numbers conclusion. There’s a final fight, but it’s not an unexpected one in the slightest.<\/p>\n

I did like the characters, and for the most part the writing was an easy read. I don’t regret buying this, that’s for certain. It was good for a little ghost story to read at three am.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of children ghosts in this story who met very bad ends, so if you dislike the deaths of children, give this a pass. If you don’t mind ghost children and a very wicked villain, give it a go.<\/p>\n

Warning<\/strong>: A teddybear dies. But it is sufficiently mourned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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