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Title: Sometimes Tries Too Hard
Review: M.T. Anderson has written some very fine ya and teen books, (say, "Burger Wuss"), but I've had a hard time warming up to the Pals in Peril series. Here's why.This book has a fine plot, decent characters, some interesting scenes, and some fine bits of writing. It also has extraneous overly zany secondary characters, jokes that go on too long, awkwardly written passages, and humorous asides from the author that work about half the time.It's like someone took a really good, funny, creative book and then bulked it out and punched it up with less interesting and less entertaining filler.Now, that may all be unfair, and I may be missing some of the appeal of this series, but it is certainly fair to suggest that you definitely use the "Click to Look Inside" option on this one.
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