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Storm Warning (The 39 Clues, #9)

Linda Sue Park

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Dec 06, 2022 San To rated it really liked it

Linda Sue Park did an amazing job in the penultimate book to the first arc in the series; it had some of the most powerful and enthralling moments yet.

I would also like to give a shoutout to the audiobook narrater, David Pittu. He does an amazing job every time, and in this book we got to see new levels of his emotive and accent range. How does he do all the accents so well?

Ratings for rest of the books: 4 or 5 except for the one where they go to Russia, I rated that one a 3.

SPOILER PART OF T Linda Sue Park did an amazing job in the penultimate book to the first arc in the series; it had some of the most powerful and enthralling moments yet.

I would also like to give a shoutout to the audiobook narrater, David Pittu. He does an amazing job every time, and in this book we got to see new levels of his emotive and accent range. How does he do all the accents so well?

Ratings for rest of the books: 4 or 5 except for the one where they go to Russia, I rated that one a 3.

SPOILER PART OF THE REVIEW
The parts that stood out for me was the Isabel scene, the beach scene, and the car drive scene. The car drive scene in particular had some of my favorite writing in the series.

My only nitpick was the part there Nellie kidnaps the kids and the man in black threatens to hurt Saliden. This seems to be something deeply unethical, and I wasn't satisfied with their explanations. Sometimes in literature there are some ethically dark grey moments and it turns out the character is ethically very dark, I don't think that'll be the case in this book. It also sends a bad message to kids, since many kidnappers know the kids that they are kidnapping, and all kidnapping experts always advice never to let kidnappers take you to a second location; anything that they can do in the present location, they can do in the secondary location and also they have more advantages. It was also tricky to imagine Nellie kidnapping the children. I think the author was trying to reconcile the betrayal/trust no one theme with some of the plot points she had crafted. The kidnapping plot point resulted in some powerful moments, but ultimately those moments were a bit cheapened for me at the end. Maybe because of where the story was going and what the editors wanted from this story, there wasn't any strong alternatives. But for me, it took me a bit out of the reality of the book, and I had to realize it is a flaw, not everything can be a slam dunk, and move onto the next book. Would be 5 stars but 4 for that one flaw, though the good parts, are really good.

Looking forward to reading the finale of this arc in a month or so.

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Aug 10, 2011 rupinl rated it really liked it

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OH NO LESTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... was that in this book???? anyway i didnt like it that much... because the title has nothing to do with the actual story :(

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