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Tom Dolby

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I hate it when you spend all this time working on a review and then the internet decides it hates you and you lose everything.

The Society follows four students from Chadwick Prep, Pheobe, Lauren, Nick and Patch. Phoebe, Laren and Nick are all invited to join the Society, a secret society in New York City that only the fifteen elite are invited to each year. At first the Society seems innocent enough but as time passes things become more and more sinister.

The book opens with a death and then moves back to the beginning of the teens initiation in the society. I was dying to know who had died and I have to tell you, it was not at all who I expected. The pace of the book moves quickly as narration jumps back and forth between each of the four teens. Each of the characters has their own distinct voice even when they sometimes share the same feelings as Lauren and Phoebe sometimes seem to.

My only complaint about the book is that we never really find out much about the Society itself. We just get a few generalities but nothing concrete. I wanted to know more about how the Society worked, especially since it was implied that this beginning was supposed to be the easy part where the initiates were supposed to simply be reaping benefits before the real work began. It sounds like there are even more sinister things going on and this beginning part was fairly sinister. There were also some unanswered questions regarding Patch and his family that are bugging me a little bit. I have heard that the author is writing a sequel and I am hoping that these questions will be answered there.
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Rosa.Mill | 16 andere besprekingen | Nov 21, 2015 |
In the second Secret Society book NIck's grandfather tells him that there is a way out of the society and that if him and his friends can solve the puzzle he gives them then they will be able to get out. Nick and his friends eventually solve the puzzle and more secrets are revealed about the Bell families' connection to Patch's family. While they work on they work on the puzzle, Phoebe, Lauren and Thad try to extricate themselves from the society by missing meetings but they are quickly punished for their insubordination and realize that they really need a way out.

The Trust was a little bit disappointing. We get to see Patch grow and make his own luck again which is great. We also get to see Lauren grow and make her own decisions about where she wants her life to go and how she wants to spend her time. Nick and Phoebe on the other hand seem a little bit stagnant. Their relationship doesn't grow and neither do the two of them unless you count Phoebe's growing paranoia and anger. They were my favorite characters in the first book but now not so much.

While the five friends spit out a lot of theories about how the Society works, the reader doesn't actually get too much more information on how it really works. It also seems like not every member gets to see the awful parts of the Society, which makes me wonder how much of the issues Nick and company are having are caused directly by Nick being the son of the current chairman and by their family issues rather then their bad luck. There was a little bit more information on Patch's family but I felt like there were still a lot of unanswered questions there. Comments made at the end of this book made me feel like there is going to be yet another sequel so we shall if another book is squeezed out of this concept, which is totally possible since I definitely feel like we are still missing big pieces of the puzzle.
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Rosa.Mill | 6 andere besprekingen | Nov 21, 2015 |
I hate it when you spend all this time working on a review and then the internet decides it hates you and you lose everything.

The Society follows four students from Chadwick Prep, Pheobe, Lauren, Nick and Patch. Phoebe, Laren and Nick are all invited to join the Society, a secret society in New York City that only the fifteen elite are invited to each year. At first the Society seems innocent enough but as time passes things become more and more sinister.

The book opens with a death and then moves back to the beginning of the teens initiation in the society. I was dying to know who had died and I have to tell you, it was not at all who I expected. The pace of the book moves quickly as narration jumps back and forth between each of the four teens. Each of the characters has their own distinct voice even when they sometimes share the same feelings as Lauren and Phoebe sometimes seem to.

My only complaint about the book is that we never really find out much about the Society itself. We just get a few generalities but nothing concrete. I wanted to know more about how the Society worked, especially since it was implied that this beginning was supposed to be the easy part where the initiates were supposed to simply be reaping benefits before the real work began. It sounds like there are even more sinister things going on and this beginning part was fairly sinister. There were also some unanswered questions regarding Patch and his family that are bugging me a little bit. I have heard that the author is writing a sequel and I am hoping that these questions will be answered there.
… (meer)
 
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Rosa.Mill | 16 andere besprekingen | Nov 21, 2015 |
In the second Secret Society book NIck's grandfather tells him that there is a way out of the society and that if him and his friends can solve the puzzle he gives them then they will be able to get out. Nick and his friends eventually solve the puzzle and more secrets are revealed about the Bell families' connection to Patch's family. While they work on they work on the puzzle, Phoebe, Lauren and Thad try to extricate themselves from the society by missing meetings but they are quickly punished for their insubordination and realize that they really need a way out.

The Trust was a little bit disappointing. We get to see Patch grow and make his own luck again which is great. We also get to see Lauren grow and make her own decisions about where she wants her life to go and how she wants to spend her time. Nick and Phoebe on the other hand seem a little bit stagnant. Their relationship doesn't grow and neither do the two of them unless you count Phoebe's growing paranoia and anger. They were my favorite characters in the first book but now not so much.

While the five friends spit out a lot of theories about how the Society works, the reader doesn't actually get too much more information on how it really works. It also seems like not every member gets to see the awful parts of the Society, which makes me wonder how much of the issues Nick and company are having are caused directly by Nick being the son of the current chairman and by their family issues rather then their bad luck. There was a little bit more information on Patch's family but I felt like there were still a lot of unanswered questions there. Comments made at the end of this book made me feel like there is going to be yet another sequel so we shall if another book is squeezed out of this concept, which is totally possible since I definitely feel like we are still missing big pieces of the puzzle.
… (meer)
 
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Rosa.Mill | 6 andere besprekingen | Nov 21, 2015 |

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