Truly Devious: A Review
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (mystery - young adult, 2018)
my rating - 4,5/5
Truly Devious is the first book of The Truly Devious Trilogy. It is a young-adult mystery about a school, Ellingham Academy, where the students are all geniuses in different subjects. The first year the school opened, 1936, the founder's wife and daughter were kidnapped on the grounds of the school and a student was murdered. Now, many years later, Stevie Bell, a gifted teenager with a passion for crime-solving has a single goal. To solve the mystery of the Academy.
It was the first time I read a young-adult mystery and I was impressed. It is a very nice and enjoyable book. The story is so well written and it combines mystery and teenagers perfectly. I devoured it in a day! It ended with a shocking plot twist so the moment I was done I immediately ordered the rest of the trilogy! However, except for the engaging story, the book refers to some society issues I found very interesting.
Truly Devious follows the life of Stevie, a teenager who doesn't really match the society's ideal picture of a teenage girl. Due to her intelligence she finds school boring and useless and she gains more knowledge from her personal reading and research. No one really understands her, not even her parents, until she goes to Ellingham Academy. There, everyone can learn at their own rhythm without the pressure of the educational system. This made me think a lot about the way we learn at schools and how it doesn't suit most of the students, especially those interested in arts. Finally, as many teenage novels, it involves falling in love for the first time and how this affects the daily life of a teenager.
In conclusion, this book is one of those which once you dive into you can't stop reading and you totally forget what's happening in the real world. I highly recommend it to everyone!
D. 🧡
my rating - 4,5/5
Truly Devious is the first book of The Truly Devious Trilogy. It is a young-adult mystery about a school, Ellingham Academy, where the students are all geniuses in different subjects. The first year the school opened, 1936, the founder's wife and daughter were kidnapped on the grounds of the school and a student was murdered. Now, many years later, Stevie Bell, a gifted teenager with a passion for crime-solving has a single goal. To solve the mystery of the Academy.
It was the first time I read a young-adult mystery and I was impressed. It is a very nice and enjoyable book. The story is so well written and it combines mystery and teenagers perfectly. I devoured it in a day! It ended with a shocking plot twist so the moment I was done I immediately ordered the rest of the trilogy! However, except for the engaging story, the book refers to some society issues I found very interesting.
Truly Devious follows the life of Stevie, a teenager who doesn't really match the society's ideal picture of a teenage girl. Due to her intelligence she finds school boring and useless and she gains more knowledge from her personal reading and research. No one really understands her, not even her parents, until she goes to Ellingham Academy. There, everyone can learn at their own rhythm without the pressure of the educational system. This made me think a lot about the way we learn at schools and how it doesn't suit most of the students, especially those interested in arts. Finally, as many teenage novels, it involves falling in love for the first time and how this affects the daily life of a teenager.
In conclusion, this book is one of those which once you dive into you can't stop reading and you totally forget what's happening in the real world. I highly recommend it to everyone!
"She clutched her Sherlock Holmes. Nothing bad could happen when she was holding Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock would save her. "
D. 🧡
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