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Down the Rabbit Hole (An Echo Falls Mystery) Review

I love this whole series. I think it (the series) makes for a great "escape reading". Get away from it all and sink into the adventures of this young girl in Echo Falls. I would recommend it to both kids and adults.

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ISBN13: 9780060737030
Condition: New
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Down the Rabbit Hole (An Echo Falls Mystery) Overview

Welcome to Echo Falls, home of a thousand secrets.

Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. And getting them back will mean getting tangled up in a murder investigation as complicated as the mysteries solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes. With soccer practice, schoolwork, and the lead role in her town's production of Alice in Wonderland, Ingrid is swamped. But as things in Echo Falls keep getting curiouser and curiouser, Ingrid realizes she must solve the murder on her own -- before it's too late!

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One of the Laziest Plots I've Ever Read - G. Misc -
After the enormous praise Stephen King heaped upon this book, I decided to pick it up and see what all the fuss was about.

The novel starts off quite well, with a quick pace and an interesting protagonist. The prose is written in a form of contemporary shorthand that mimics the fragmented (and often, grammatically incorrect) thoughts of a young teen, and this works well, to a point. Those looking for pretty prose should look elsewhere.

Things quickly go sour, though. The murder plot, after its terrific setup, is left to drag for hundreds of pages with nary an interesting spike in the story until very nearly the end. Instead we get plenty of needless, pointless side characters and convoluted "clues" that really don't help us solve this mystery. The book spins its wheels page after page after page, leaving you to wonder just why you picked this thing up in the first place. But you keep reading because the writing is frills-free, making it easy to get through a page in about 30 seconds.

Then we get the fast, dirty conclusion where the killer is revealed, and...it is exactly who you thought it would be the entire time. Why? Because there aren't any other suspects in the book. The moment this character enters the page, you know he (or she) is up to no good by the shiftiness with which Abrahams imbues him. In sharper mystery stories, the author will create a character such as this as a red herring, an obvious villain who in the end doesn't turn out to be the antagonist after all. But not in Down the Rabbit Hole. Nope, there really is only one suspect given to us, and he (or she!) is it. Just lazy.

I finished the novel extremely irritated and literally dropped the book on the ground, so disgusted was I at the utter lack of thought that went into it. It's a joke. It's lazy. Don't drink the water.

Too hard to believe the protoganist is a 13 yr old. - P. Brooks - Chapel Hill, NC USA
Parents beware, this book details a 13 yr old who commits many crimes, lies to her parents, cuts school, lies to the police, recklessly endangers herself many times, and has few qualms regarding any of her behavior. And in fact, no negative consequences.
Listened to the audio version with my 13 yr old daughter, she agreed that it was unrealistic.

Skip it... - T. Miller - WV
This "mystery" is incredibly simplistic. Any reader over the age of 10 will probably figure it out long before the end. It's also pretty unrealistic. How many things can happen to one kid...and her parents NEVER find out?!? There are much better books out there for young adults. Skip this one.

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