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dejahann's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
mightymur's review against another edition
3.0
This was another fun Molly Moon read, even using interesting methods to knock Molly down to not having as much power as she's had before. Molly discovers she has a twin and goes forward in time to find him, and finds a very strange world ruled by a sophisticated, sadistic six year old and some hypnotized human-animal hybrids. Rocky has a small role but is missing for most of the book. Petula is the constant intelligent companion, and she meets more people and animals willing to help her along.
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A fun read with my 8 year old, who is a huge Molly Moon fan, and we're looking forward to the next book.
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So Molly learns at the end that she will become even more powerful. Let's stop and think here. She can: hypnotize people. Stop time. Move through time. And now she can read minds. She already has god-like power, what else will she gain? At least in this book they literally took her mindreading skills and her magic crystals away so that she had to rely on real ingenuity, but I wonder if Molly is becoming too powerful for plots to threaten her.A fun read with my 8 year old, who is a huge Molly Moon fan, and we're looking forward to the next book.
rara2018's review against another edition
3.0
Georgia Byng has really lost the plot this time around. Suddenly Molly has a lowkey useless twin and can read minds. Usually she at least has to learn her powers somehow and practice, but this time she just sat in a machine and then immediately got them (which other people have also used the same machine but somehow no one else has ever gotten mind reading powers from that). Also, this book was RIDDLED with plot holes in terms of its timeline (and also just everything generally). Princess Fang has been six years old for years and years but somehow no one but Nurse Meekles had ever realized that, and people just accepted that their queen had been a little elementary schooler forever. I’d also had such high hopes that this could be a brilliant (ish) work of climate fiction tackling wealth inequality and environmental justice, but instead we have bad royal family being replaced by potentially better—but still royal—family. There were still some funny moments and I appreciated that we got some more Petula narration, but this was generally the weakest book in the series.
ritikaupadhyay's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
5.0
federo999's review against another edition
3.0
For the most part I enjoyed this book, but it had some slow parts and sometimes I wished that it would already be to the end. Too slow maybe?
katmystery's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book. The villain was evil, the main characters fabulous, and the plot fantastic. It's a wonderful book and a great addition to the series. It put the series back on track. Ready for the next one!
adeperi's review against another edition
2.0
Really? Still a well-written story, but really? This girl has FOUR secret powers she didn't know about now? Hmm.