The Incorrigible Children Of Ashton Place: Book II: The Hidden Gallery (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This book picks right up where the prequel finished. Wasting no time, the incorrigibles and Miss Lumley are off to London for more adventures as well as more mystery. Even more questions and clues are brought up in the book than the previous, but hardly anything is answered. Some of the asides were a bit much in the beginning, but the middle and end picked up with more action and mystery leaving less room for the side notes. Katherine Kellgren does another amazing job. Commute audiobook. A bit better than the first in the series--more cohesive with the mystery thread running through the whole book, rather than getting tacked on at the end, as in #1. It suffers from the same problem as the first installment, though, in that I still don't think this warrants a whole series. Series are justified when each book of the series works well on its own, with its own plot arc and its own themes, AS WELL AS comprising a piece of the larger puzzle of the series. So far, neither installment works very well as an individual book. As individual books, they are largely episodic, without a book-level plot arc. With some editing, I still think that all the volumes could be combined into a single, longish book. Alas, I am neither the writer nor the publisher, and so here we are with an unnecessary series. I do enjoy these books though--I really like the narrator and most of her character voices, and it's sufficiently simple yet also sufficiently entertaining to keep me awake and interested when I'm driving, so I'll keep going with the series.
What do You think about The Incorrigible Children Of Ashton Place: Book II: The Hidden Gallery (2011)?
Sehr witziges und raffiniert erklärendes Buch.So müssen Kinderbücher sein!
—seamonkey
This series is one of the best I have read in a long time.
—Asirual
