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Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

Maureen Johnson

Start date: May 1, 2022

Finish date: May 31, 2022

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Mar 13, 2023 Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-on-my-ipad, 2023, contemporary, e-book, great-side-characters, young-adult, 3-stars, for-a-challenge, mystery, mystery-crime

3 stars. A good start to the series. It was slow and a bit boring at times but the characters were fun and I enjoyed the mystery for the most part. The writing was also really good. I liked the ending and it definitely made me excited about picking up book two especially as I hear that the series gets better and better with each book.

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May 03, 2025 Felicia rated it really liked it

I love a good YA mystery. I think they are usually neatly packaged and wrap up nicely. This one felt like the Inheritance Games mysteries with the riddles. I liked that there was representation in this book although it was a little quick and one offed. I liked that the characters were "weirdos" who banned together. I also really like that you see that the kids that go to this school are the socially awkward ones but thrive in a different learning environment. I did not like David. I thought his ...more

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Jun 07, 2021 Aneta rated it liked it

Shelves: i-own, young-adult, contemporary, crime, doctena-serie, mystery, read-in-english, re-read

I remebered a lot from my first read but everything was in a different place than I expected it to be. So it was interesting.
Overall I have to say this book was a little boring. I loved the beginning with Dottie and storyline in 1936 but these chapters were short and there wasn't many of them. On the other side, there is Stevie's storyline. It drags a lot! It takes forever for something to happen and when something finally did happen, it didn't change much. Plus romance came out of nowhere!

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Apr 03, 2024 Jennie Winters rated it really liked it

A murder mystery set in two timelines that are almost a century apart. Both timelines occur at Ellingham Academy, a private school in Vermont. The school's founder, Albert Ellingham, was a rich and powerful businessman who opened the school on a secluded mountain and educated students at no cost to them. They included brilliant students from poor backgrounds as well as the children from rich and powerful families.

The school is famous for the kidnapping of Albert Ellingham's wife and child--a mys ...more

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