I loved it when I reread it in early high school. It is also riddles-packed, and mystery-packed, and excitement-packed, and friendship-packed, and character development-packed, and knowledge-packed, and everything that is wonderful in this world-packed. The Mysterious Benedict Society is action-packed. Just because it’s true doesn’t mean it’s nice. Middle grade adventure is especially good, and this book is the most especially good example of the most especially good of the most especially good.Įven just writing about it makes me so happy I can barely type out rational thoughts!!! (Don’t say what else is new.
In other words, if everything that sucked so hard about YA didn’t exist. Middle grade is like young adult if young adult wasn’t so dramatic, and didn’t have a million boring/dramatic/unnecessary subplots, and wasn’t legally required under the jurisdiction of the United Nations to contain a romance.
How I feel about middle grade is this: I LOVE IT. Unless you are new here (in which case, welcome and you have made a grave mistake), you know how I feel about middle grade. I’m not saying I have one but I am saying that’s the polite thing to do.Īnyway: THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. Please read the following sentence as if I am singing it, joyfully:Īlso, I hope you mentally gave me a beautiful singing voice.
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