What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Name of This Book Is Secret
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SOLVED. Middle Grade Mystery series. Villains are after eternal youth. Read 2020-2025. Spoilers.
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I read this book series within the last five years. The author enjoyed using alliteration in their titles, which reminded me of Lemony Snicket at the time. However, I’m fairly certain the author was a woman. The heroine of the series— though it is later revealed the narrator is her male friend— goes to school with a girl who keeps giving her used lip gloss out of pity. In the first book, the girl meets the first of her two male friends, and they try and rescue a talented boy their age who has synesthesia. They find out a cult, led by a really old blonde lady, has been using the brains of children with synesthesia to give themselves eternal youth. The blonde lady is revealed to have led her her kind-of boyfriend to run away from a circus when he was creepily very young (she was already who knows how old) resulting in him abandoning his identical twin brother, who was thought to be murdered in a house fire at the beginning of the book, but is revealed to be alive. The twin brothers also have synesthesia, and they created a secret code only the two of them understood using the ability. The girl falls in love with her second male friend and her first male friend is revealed to be the narrator. Sorry for making this insanely long! If you read this, thank you SO MUCH!
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I can add more details upon request! Just some random stuff: Off the top of my head, the boy revealed to be the narrator has divorced parents who literally split their house, and who later get back together briefly and have another boy, his little brother.
It sounds like the Secret series by Pseudonymous Bosch. The first book is The Name of This Book Is Secret.
That’s exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much!
