There's so much telling, and not enough story. It didn't make sense.)Ģ: Subtlety is dead. There was no point in her not allowing the conversation. She absolutely would not allow this conversation to go there.'. (See page 120: 'I don't want to get into that right now, Strobe. It's like he didn't know at that point in his writing, so he put in a 'I don't want to answer that right now because I don't know the answer either answer' and then didn't go back and edit it. Now, before I get into reasons I didn't like it, I'd like to mention that this is a sequel, and I didn't read the first book - but honestly, I don't think that has much to do with it.ġ: The author has characters ask questions the readers have, then puts off the answer. ? Let's let the true literary scholars debate that. Was this better than a Dicken's Classic?. Really, I'm wondering if I should bump it down to one star - especially after I gave 'A Tale of Two Cities' one star in my last review. But, in this case 'good' was a euphemism for 'bad.' (I got to post little pictures of my face by the books I read with a 'good/better/best' rating. I did, however list this as a 'good' book. Now, let me say that I don't feel like I sold out, or lost my integrity by writing that review.feelings. (My highest recommendations are The Hunger Games, Speak, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. (The book fair also has the series’ first book, Killer Pizza.) If it doesn’t, the book fair has other books that will. If the thought of protecting monsters appeals to you, consider picking up this book. Using a pizzeria as a front, this group of teens works to put hunted monsters in the “Monster Protection Program…” While this ambitious book brought lots of action, I found it a little cheesy (pun intended) and thought the author was spoon-feeding his audience telling us what happened rather than developing the story.

Monsters are the name of the game once again in the latest edition to the “Killer Pizza” series. Here's what I wrote up for the book-fair: I was unlucky enough to have this book as the one to review. I was lucky enough to be chosen as a 'Celebrity Reader' for our school book-fair.

Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor