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City of Secrets was an adventurous book full of treachery and danger. I believe the author’s purpose in writing this novel was to tell readers to be more confident in life and just be your self. Matt was a round character in the story. He changed from being an insecure dyslexia teen to being a confident young man striving to attend university or college in the future. I feel happy that Matt is enjoying his life and the Stravaganti are safe from the Di Chimichi’s. Even though Matt had dyslexia, he was able to move on through life with confidence. Matt’s experience has given me a strong impact on doing well throughout my life and never give up on reaching my own goals. One scene that gave me a tear in my eye was when Ayesha and Matt saved Jago in the hospital while Luciano unexpectedly bumped into his mother. I thought this was an emotional scene. Family relationships are important to me, so this scene I cannot forget. I believe it was unfinished work: Luciano had to tell his parents he was fine and healthy living a different life. On a scale of 1-10, I’ll rate this novel as a 7. If you ever read this novel, you’ll find it suspenseful and hard to put down. Overall this novel was really good, although it was extremely difficult to talk about due to it being taken place in two different time periods, four centuries apart. I would advise readers not to read this book unless they’ve read the first three books in the sequence. If they didn’t read the first 3 books, they’ll be in for a fit of confusion. Other books Mary Hoffman has written are City of Masks, City of Stars, City of Flowers, all from the Stravaganza series. City of Secrets is a cliff-hanging story and I’ll recommend this series to anyone who loves suspense on any night.

One False Note is the second book in the popular 39 Clues, when I first looked at the books I assumed that the author just wrote the book and came up with the contest so that people would buy the books, but I was wrong the books are gripping, smart,and good for almost all ages! When Amy and Dan escape from the catacombs they come out with a sheet of music by Mozart then they figure out that it means they must travel to Venice to find the next clue. This exciting book contains thrilling boat races, secret passages,back stabbing relatives, and major discoveries. This book should be a classic.

Alia longs to be a keenten- part of the sisterhood of warrior women. She and her best friend Kay take part in the mock skirmishes in their village- hoping to be noticed by one of the keentens. When Alia and Kay find 2 Beechian children (enemies of their village) hiding in the woods the capture them to impress the warrior women. Alia and Kay are promised that they will become keentens. However Kay and the keentens treat the prisoners (like dirt. One day Alia listens to the Beechian's and discovers a dreadful plot and that nothing is what it seems. She gains help from unexpected sources and discovers the power within herself... the power of the speakers.

Each book of the 39 Clues is written by a different author and this author writing style was very boring and weak. Things I hated about the book were that he managed to turn a cold,cruel,classy,and prim group of enemies into a bunch of blubbering idiots. He also added some mild toilet humor such as being bitten by a guard dog on the bum exsoping pink boxer shorts, and someone forgetting to flush (yuck). Peter Lerangris added a whole lot of rubbishy things which just confuses the reader. I strongly advise you to NOT read this book.