This was an incredible book. It truly was. I hate book series. I hate that book series are never published together, but rather with 2 years between each of them – at least. I hate that I liked this book so much and the second book is published next year. I have to wait a whole year.
This book is a mystery novel, featuring this very weird girl named Stevie Bell – actually Stephanie, but it's Stevie – who is a true crime fan. There is a school called the Ellingham Academy, where only the brightest go to, doesn't matter your financial background or anything else other than your mind.
Around the 1930s there was a crime committed in the Ellingham estate by a criminal that dubbed itself, Truly Devious. The crime went unsolved, Stevie is going to solve it.
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Ay ay ay, this book is incredible. Truly Spectacular. It's a mystery novel, and I'm not usually into mystery novels, but I was very into this book. It's a mystery novel, without overdoing the whole mystery and searching for clues part; the author makes the mystery be like the underlying factor of everything but not the absolutely main focus of the book. Stevie is the main focus of the book.
She's a strange girl, that Stevie; but also hilarious. Her parents don't really understand her.
And Stevie doesn't really understand them either.
“Those are strange angels,” her mother said, craning to look. “They’re not angels,” Stevie said. “They’re sphinxes, They’re mythical creatures that ask you riddles before you’re allowed to enter a place. If you get it wrong, they eat you. Like from Oedipus. The Riddle of the Sphinx. That’s a sphinx. Not to be confused with Spanx, which is the sidearm in the holster of the diet-industrial complex.” Her mother gave her that look again. We kind of wanted the going-out, shopping, prom-going type, and we got this weird creepy one, and we love it, but what is it talking about, ever?
Stevie has lots of disagreements with them, because as they didn't ask for an out-of-the-ordinary girl, she didn't ask for parents that supported Edward King, the governor of her home state. A man who was racist, fascist, and a pig; a man who their parents worked for. A man who does nothing else than fill Stevie with shame with the fact that her parents work for him.
Stephanie, sorry, Stevie is conflicted, enigmatic, weird, quirky, funny, and all in all, Truly Incredible.
Read this book – not now, but when the sequel comes out because waiting is the absolute worst feeling. When the sequel comes out, read this book and the next one and the third one that we don't even know when it is going to come out yet, sigh, I hate book trilogies (but I also love them). Anywho, this book is more than recommended.
It is Truly Devious.
I LOVE YOU ALL. I LOVE YOU ALL. I LOVE YOU ALL.
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