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This Isn't What It Looks Like (2010)

by Pseudonymous Bosch(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0316076252 (ISBN13: 9780316076258)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

series

Secret

review 1: Reading This isn't what it looks like by Pseudonymous Bosch (which really isn't his name his real name is Raphael Simon, but Pseudonymous Bosch is his pen name for the book). Was a weird and crazy adventure in fact this book is part of a secret series which I have already encountered meaning I only read the first three books and now I finished reading the fourth. This book is really different from all the other books out there each page had something new for me to show to my family because it was really that exciting. If this book were a movie I would totally go and watch it because it won't be the same from all the other books turned into a movie out there. This has all the chapters in different order so if that was turned into a movie then things would get crazy... more. Also the author is obsessed with chocolate so obviously the plot of this book is about chocolate and how there's different kinds and what kinds are poison from the people in the white gloves who are the antagonist in the book. So if this were to turn into a movie I believe it would be action packed with a lot of mystery guys, and betrayal. The main characters in this book is Max-Ernest and Cass also known as Cassandra. Supposedly Cass ate some bad chocolate made by the guys in the white gloves and now she had gone back in time for a mission. Which sounds very weird, but if turned into a movie would be a big hit. And catch a lot of attention for all types of viewers and nobody would get tired of it because its something people have never seen. I wonder why the author choose to write this type of book because it is very odd and I also wonder why he has it all secretive and closed in. Because in the beginning of the book and throughout this book it has directions of disguising the book and making sure you look up every 5 minutes to see if anybody wearing a white glove is looking at you. Which is pretty cool because it kind of keeps you involved and he is engaging with the reader even though he is not sitting right beside you reading the book along. It was interesting that the author put all these little things in the book that make it more exciting to read. I remember reading the first book called The Name Of This Book Is a Secret and believe it or not that is not the name of the book when it really is. So the concept of this series is to find the name of the book through eating chocolate and going back in time which is very interesting. This book brought me more back into my childhood because I always used to imagine things so crazy and so weird that this book made me come back to that which was amazing.
review 2: When last we left Cass, she had eaten Senor Hugo's extra strong time-travel chocolate and was going to find the secret from her very own ancestor, the Jester. If she answered some personal questions along the way about her birth parents, so much the better. This latest installment in the Secret series retains all the tongue-in-cheek humor of its predecessors but ramps up the drama as the Midnight Sun and Terces Society both draw inexorably closer to the conclusion.Note: There is a scene or two with Tarot cards and a discussion that compares them to the real force of a magnet and suggests that it may be simply seem like magic only because we don't know what that force is scientifically yet. The reason I don't throw up a red flag at this though is taken in the context of a series where a magic ball calls a humanoid creature, a magic fork makes addictive food out of nothing, a double monocle allows for second sight, invisibility and time travel are all on equal footing, any reader who falls for tarot as real in the midst of all this obviously not real -- well, perhaps this series isn't for them at all. I will mention it though, for the benefit of my friends who want a heads up on this potentially confusing scene. less

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