Review: Too juvenile for me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
The themes in the book were silly and trite. Not horrible for a teen but pretty lame for something using Jane's name as a selling point, and claiming to borrow her characters. The characterizations were more like caricatures.In addition, the stakes simply weren't high enough. For example, when Lizzie was "caught" in the office, there was a failed opportunity for that event to establish some true conflict in the plot. A huge misunderstanding, threat of turning her in, a warning to drop her investigation etc. "Bergie" was a lightweight too. Why wasn't she threatening Lizzie with suspension for her antics? Although you could read between the lines at the "owners" motivation for buying the school, there was never a motive given for why they wanted to change the name of the school - in fact, at the end, you wondered if it was actually "Bergie" who took issue with the name, but that was never clarified. The more I think about it, the more the whole thing unravels.