Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Mar 19, 2006 4:41:12 GMT -5
I loved this one just because the character Amalia seemed so incredibly cute. I would love to get a hug from her. And Kristy was a jerk in this one, bitching at Allie while Allie was giving them her "confession." I mean, Allie was telling a bunch of 8th graders that she doesn't even know, a secret that she had possibly hoped to take to her grave. The least Kristy could have done was shut her mouth.
Thoughts on this mystery?
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jen
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Post by jen on Mar 22, 2006 1:14:24 GMT -5
Yep, agreed about Kristy being a b*tch.
The way they solved this mystery seemed a bit unrealistic - figuring out the forest green paint on the brick and linking it with the hardware store? It seemed a bit far-fetched, to be honest.
I liked the drama in this book, though, with the whole big-developer-vs-small-town thing. I enjoyed reading the letters to the newspaper, from both sides.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 22, 2006 20:48:21 GMT -5
Some parts were a bit boring, but overall I think it's a good one. Typical BSC crusade stuff, but I like how they want to preserve Sawyer's Mill from the big bad developer (is that the name? Or was it a park? Eh, I'm confused.) Anyway. And Amalia sounded really cute too. I think she and Luke are adorable on the cover. And is it just me or is Mary Anne wearing a lot of makeup?
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Post by bscfan24 on Mar 22, 2006 22:36:26 GMT -5
And is it just me or is Mary Anne wearing a lot of makeup? It's not just you. I've always thought that whenever I see Mary Anne in that cover. I like it though. It brings out her features. It's just that we're not used to seeing her with a lot of it on. Another thing, is it just me, or do the later book covers w/ Mary Anne (mostly the mysteries) seem to make it look like her chest has ballooned out over night? The Mystery of the Book Store (or whatever that one w/ the Edgar Allen Poe Book Store was called), it makes her look like she's really busty. Strange.
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jen
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Post by jen on Mar 23, 2006 4:29:44 GMT -5
I don't think she has enormous boobs on the Haunted Bookstore cover... she's just sticking out her chest. They aren't overly large or anything, though.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 23, 2006 15:25:46 GMT -5
I think these are two covers where she looks very pretty, Silent Witness and Haunted Bookstore. After she got her hair cut, there were some pics of her that I found not so flattering (i.e. Babysitters Christmas Chiller.) I think she looks cute but grown-up in these two. Oh, and just checked the Complete Guide, and it's Ambrose's Sawmill in Miller's Park...I knew it was something like that
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Mar 26, 2006 14:41:24 GMT -5
Just like in Dawn and School Spirit War, how could a bunch of 13 year olds get the better of adults when exchanging arguments, via letters, in a newspaper column.
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jen
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Post by jen on Apr 3, 2006 7:05:05 GMT -5
Because they're geniuses, of course
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Post by greer on Jun 3, 2006 14:00:39 GMT -5
About the cover of Haunted Bookstore: the cover for that, as well as stolen hearts and cat burglar, were done by another artist who did not seem as against drawing bsc members with chests as hodges soileau did.
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jen
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Post by jen on Jun 5, 2006 6:01:30 GMT -5
Oh, really?! I like those covers better, actually... The colours or shading or *something* seems nicer.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 5, 2006 21:19:16 GMT -5
I don't like the cover of Stacey and the Stolen Hearts. Stacey looks like a Wakefield twin.
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fluffycakes
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Post by fluffycakes on Aug 5, 2007 18:20:38 GMT -5
No one's replied to this thread in over a year - but I hope no one minds me bringing it up again!
This mystery sucks. It's pretty interesting for most of the book, until the ending. The ending is what ruins the entire thing for me. We get yet another confession just because Mary Anne says "How could you?" True, Allie and Beau are young, so it's not like MA intimidated some crazy criminal or anything, but still. It's a little unbelievable.
The thing that kills it for me, though, is the reunion between the twins:
So...Fowler wants to take over Stoneybrook and turn it into a corporate area...because their mother died when they were babies? Worst. Incentive. Ever.
It's too bad, because this book had a lot of promise in the beginning. I agree with you all, Amalia was darling! Mr. & Mrs. Martinez seem like cool parents, as well - sticking up for the club when the police were suspicious even though they barely knew them. I even liked the mean old developer, mysterious twins idea - too bad the ending was so stale. (Heehee, sorry...couldn't resist!)
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lark
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Post by lark on Aug 16, 2007 14:18:15 GMT -5
^ I totally agree that this book had a lot of promise but the end just didn't live up to it. So their bad memory that led them to change their names was their mother dying? A day after they were born, so they didn't even know her? Doesn't make sense. I was expecting something way worse than that. Mary Anne's mother died when she was a baby, and you don't see her taking it out on Stoneybrook!
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Aug 16, 2007 15:08:33 GMT -5
I actually liked this mystery, I thought Amalia was really cute as well. I think I liked this mystery because it was one that I didn't figure it out right off the bat as I do with some of the other mysteries.
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Post by bscfan81 on Aug 21, 2007 15:03:32 GMT -5
I thought Amalia sounded absolutely adorable, although I, too, was confused by the motive in destroying the mill and such. I never understood how the mother factored into all that. I don't know. Maybe I'll read it again and see if maybe I just missed something.
Interesting that Cary actually took care of the kids for a little while--never saw him as the baby-sitter type. Who knew?
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