redheadperson22

9 years ago

What I thought of it: Well, I tried to read it. But I couldn't finish it. I got, at the most, quarter through it, but I just couldn't read it anymore. I mean I felt like I was supposed to like it, I just couldn't get into it. Also, I couldn't decide whether I liked the writing style or not. Overall, I couldn't get through it, but I might've thought it was an ok book if I had finished it.

nikukyu

9 years ago

I thought it was only me, redheadperson22! You're not alone.

baltobuddy

9 years ago

This is an AMAZING book! I love it so much, it is very interesting! You should read it! :D :D

witchathogwarts

9 years ago

I've only read the first one, but I thought it was pretty good, very creative, using a 'not as common' plot/storyline/theme.

milothepug

9 years ago

These are the best books that I have ever read! My favorite!

happypug12

10 years ago

I am half way through this book also, and it is 1 star better than Flashpoint.

kjoyaflores

10 years ago

Kate is so awesome with her bucket.

Liz

10 years ago

This is seriously my most favorite book of all time. So much good description, it makes you think so differently afterwords (Reynie is SOOO smart!!), and the adventure is just there! I can never put it down!

Ms. Manning

10 years ago

Level V

zombieseatpie

10 years ago

I have read the first 3 books in the series and they were exceptional! When Reynie,Sticky,Kate,and Constance were at the Institute and they looked under the bridge and it was Milligan it was like you were thankful it was not Jackson or any of the other exectutives. But if Trenton Lee Stewart wrote it was S.Q they would trick him just like they do in the next book.

lionsrcute1

10 years ago

This book brought back my love for reading. When four kids, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance try out for a test in a ad, they are the only ones who passed. It's like a Sherlock Holmes book for kids. AMAZING. At least, so far.... Well anyways, up to where I read, The 4 kids form their own group, because they have to work together to stop Mr.Curtain, someone who was evil from the Institute Here's a sample of the "tricks" they put in. My favorite part: CROSS THE ROOM WITHOUT SETTING FOOT ON A BLUE OR BLACK SQUARE. Reynie looked down. On the cement floor just inside the door, where he now stood, was a large red circle. On the other side of the room, by the opposite door, was another red circle. Between these circles the floor resembled a giant checkerboard, with alternating rectangles of blue, black, and yellow. Reynie studied the pattern. There was far more blue and black than yellow. So much more, in fact, that he soon realized it would be impossible to cross the room without stepping on blue or black. The yellow parts were so widely scattered that he doubted even a kangaroo could hop from one to the other. He looked at the sign again, and after a moment’s consideration, he laughed and shook his head. Then he strode confidently across the room, into the other red circle, and out the far door. Sticky and Milligan stood waiting for him beyond the door. They had been watching him secretly through tiny holes in the wall. Sticky looked confused and started to ask Reynie something, but Milligan shushed him. “You boys can watch, but you must be quiet,” he said. He went away to tell Kate it was her turn. Moments later they saw Kate step boldly into Room 7-B. After reading the sign, she studied the floor, considering whether she might manage to leap from yellow to yellow. At last she shook her head, rejecting the idea. Next she looked from one door to the other, gauging the distance. Then, taking the length of rope from her bucket, she fashioned a loop at the end, and with one expert throw lassoed the doorknob at the far side of the room. Fastening the other end to the doorknob behind her, she pulled the rope tight, knotted it securely, and climbed up. “Now, if I only had that paddle,” she said aloud to herself as she walked along the rope, “I could hold it out in front of me for balance.” Indeed, a paddle might have helped, for halfway across the room she nearly fell (the boys caught their breath), but after wobbling back and forth and wheeling her arms around, she recovered. After a few more careful steps, she hopped down into the other red circle. “Wow!” Sticky whispered. “She did it!” But before Kate could join the boys, Milligan appeared and took her back to the starting point to try again, this time without her rope, which he informed her would be returned upon completion of the test. “That’s hardly fair,” Sticky whispered. “Nobody told her she couldn’t use a rope.” Kate, meanwhile, was removing all the items from her bucket and stuffing them into her pockets. When she’d finished, her pockets bulging ridiculously, she unscrewed the handle from her bucket and tucked it through her belt. Then she was ready. Kicking the bucket onto its side, she hopped onto it and began rolling it forward with her feet, like a circus bear balancing on a ball. Rolling first this way, and then that, she zigzagged across the room to the other red circle. Reynie and Sticky looked at each other in awe. Who was this girl? Yet once again, as Kate reattached the bucket handle and emptied her pockets, Milligan entered the room. He returned her to the starting circle, this time taking away her bucket and tools, which she handed over with evident reluctance. She recovered quickly, however. Before Milligan had even closed the door behind him, Kate shrugged and cracked her knuckles, flattened her palms against the cement, and lifted her feet into the air above her. And this was how she crossed the room, walking on her hands, not once setting foot upon the floor. “Never mind,” said Milligan when she opened the door. He handed her bucket back. “You pass.” “What I don’t understand,” Sticky was saying to Reynie as they followed Milligan down a dark stairway, “is how you passed that test. I’m glad, of course, but I don’t see how you did it. I crossed on my hands and knees so my feet didn’t touch any blue or black squares, and Kate did her acrobat tricks..