Review: Great Book of Intrigue
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2012
Hallie Palmer is a collection of four books following a girl named Hallie Palmer from childhood to adulthood. The four books are Beginner's Luck, Heart's Desire, The Big Shuffle and the Best Bet. In these books Hallie Palmer must deal with one crisis after another while solving some little mystery in her life.The first book Beginner's Luck Hallie is heading towards disaster when she meets a family named Stockton that changes her life. Along the way to that new life she is framed for a robbery and must solve who actually did it.In the second book Heart's Desire Hallie is now in college and must help her new family come back together. Along the way she helps her younger sister become a woman and helps an old enemy/friend get revenge on a nemesis.In the third book The Big Shuffle she is forced into an unwinnable situation. Her father had just died and her mother has had a nervous breakdown leaving her to take care of her younger siblings. Along with this she has found a secret about her mother.The final book is the and she is on the verge of graduating college only to find out she has to take one more class. Her friend wanting to help her gets her invited on a trip around the world for class credit. She has quite an adventure with money disappearing to gambling in a foreign casino.Overall, this book is quite good at keeping me entertained. I recommend anyone who wants to read an intriguing tale with a little mystery to read this book.