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Dead Kid Detective Agency (2011)

by Evan Munday(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1770900845 (ISBN13: 9781770900844)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Not Avail

series

The Dead Kid Detective Agency

review 1: 2.5This book had some nice things about it - it dealt with clinical depression and mental illness pretty well, and had some nifty Canadian history lessons. Actually, I just thought it was cool it was set in Canada, 'cause so few fantasy type books seems to be. Well, at least the ones I've read.But I just never really connected with any of the characters much, and the mystery itself was pretty eh. It kinda seemed to be more about October and her weirdness and school and mean girls and stuff - all of which was handled fairly well, but none of which was all that great.Also, it was bugging me that it kept changing from first-person narrative to third-person limited. About halfway through, or more, the third-person becomes sort of relevant in that we follow the dead kids in... morestead of October, but for most of the book both the first-person and third-person parts solely follow October, so it just seemed pointless much of the time.Also, the voices of the two narratives were very similar. Both sort of addressed the audience and tried to be witty in the same way - though the third-person narrative was more direct about it.Then there were some chapters from the diary of Henri someone, and while it does become relevant to the story, it was kind of weirdly thrown in in random places. And it also stopped somewhere like midway through the story, instead of continuing through the end - though the end is where it would've fit more and I actually would've liked that bit to be fleshed out more.All in all a sort of decent read, but nothing to write home about. I doubt I'll continue the series. Younger kids might like it - if they're not distracted by the author's attempt to use hip and cool vernacular that has probably long gone out of fashion by now. It sounded more like the way I talked in high school - almost 20 years ago - than how I hear my niece speak nowadays. :-\
review 2: October Schwartz wears black, is writing a book titled Two knives, One Thousand Demons, likes to spend time in the cemetery and is trying to solve the mystery of her favourite teachers death with the help of a group of ghost kids who will disappear on Halloween night. She is up against time, school authorities who think she is delusional, friends who are as strange as October and a dad who is worried about her.Strangely interesting introduction of historically significant events through the ghost kids and the death of a teacher associated with the FLQ in Quebec. A Glossary of "culturally significant " events helps readers make sense of a variety of references.Recommended: 10-14 yearsSubject/Theme: mystery, supernaturalNominated for OLA Forest of Reading Silver Birch AwardFirst of the series less

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