Maggie Hall (1)Recensioni

Ce roman est tellement tiré par les cheveux qu'il frise le fantastique, non tant pour sa prémisse que pour ses scènes mirobolantes comme celle d'une adolescente qui échappe à des tueurs professionnels alors qu'elle court en Louboutins. Mais bon, une fois qu'on se prend au jeu, l'intrigue accélère, le nœud se ressert et l'on commence à tourner les pages à folle allure: en quelques jours j'avais terminé les plus de 400 pages.
Entraînant, original somme toute, sympathique, ce roman jeunesse est aussi un plaisir pour les plus grands. Je suis même tentée par le 2e tome...½

This book was such a fast pace listen and such a fast pace ride. I really grew to love all the characters and the romance is so good! I really want to know what happens next. The hour of this book is a real nail biter!

I had to re-read this so i can read the sequel. I loved it and am excited to read more.

This book was such a fast pace listen and such a fast pace ride. I really grew to love all the characters and the romance is so good! I really want to know what happens next. The hour of this book is a real nail biter!

I had to re-read this so i can read the sequel. I loved it and am excited to read more.

This was semi-predictable, but still a really fun read. I enjoyed learning about this conspiracy that deals a lot with history. The traveling was also pretty fun. I liked (didn't love) the characters and hope the next one will be even better!

2 stars for sudden extreme violence. Had I known it was going there I wouldn't have started it.

This book was a book that a group of us readers from PageHabit met and agreed to read together for the month of July. I was very hesitant to read this book, due to the fact that it was a Young Adult Novel. Now, I don't have a problem with Young Adult books as a whole, but it makes it a lot harder for me to get into the protagonist's mind when I am NOT as young as her.

For one, Avery was/is very gullible, to leave her home, at the age of 15, to travel across the world with complete strangers is something that I could not believe. I thought it was irresponsible and stupid, quite frankly. As Stellan points out when they are on the plane leaving for France.

I also HATE love triangles. The whole tenson between Avery, Jack, and Stellan is an old troupe that I would love to see put to rest. I am tired of seeing love triangles in all of the genres. This is not how life is. For those reading this SPOILER review, I know that books are supposed to take you out of the realm of reality and into a fictional world, but I just couldn't.

Also, that quasi semi-sex scene in the book with Avery and Jack, was ridiculous and I just didn't believe it was right. There are teeenagers that are going to read this book and think that this is okay. They have known each other for a couple of days and already they are in bed with each other. I really feel like if these characters were 5 or 10 years older I would have been able to stand a lot more of these plot holes.

As for those few things that I did not like about the book, I did find the premise and plot extrememly interesting. I loved the history of Alexander the Great and the 12 families. I really wanted to know more about. I want know about the crypt and the treasure. It's the mystery that got my through the book. The wanting to know what happened.

I haven't made up my mind as to whether or not I want to read the second book, because the first one leaves off in a cliff hanger. I am going to have to wait it out a few days and see how I feel about it. I just finished the book 5 minutes ago and I felt like I needed to write a review on this. This is the first review that I have written about in length.

Lots of interesting developments in this one as we find out more family history and continue on our treasure hunt and journey around the world. Love triangles abound!

Interesting conspiracy theories and assassination plots abound! This had lots of twists and turns. A fun, light read.

I read the first book of the series in August 2017. In the beginning, I had a little bit of trouble remembering the premise, even though I clearly remember the cliffhanger in the end. I also enjoyed 'Map of Fates,' the second installment of the series. This time for some reason, it took me longer to get into the book.
Once again, Avery, Jack & Stallan travel the world to find Alexander the Great and Napoleon's secrets so that they can save Averey's mother kidnapped. Once again, you don't know who to trust and whom not to. There are characters that, while they are friendly, are truly despicable.
The plot gets a bit more intricate, and characters get more developed, and you start caring about everything just a bit more.
In the second half of the plot, the action spiced up, the mythology finally conjured something interesting, and the characters were developing, even if at a snail's pace. Good stuff, good stuff.
I am looking forward to reading the final installment of the series, and I hope it won't take me almost 4 years to continue with the finalization of the story.

WOW! This book certainly surprised me; it is a book full of action & suspense. You don't know who is who and who you can or can't trust.
The story starts with the ancestry of Great Alexander, ancient Greek history, and mythology. As my heritage is Greek, it is certainly a subject that interests me. Loved that at the beginning, we are in a small town in the United States (even though the main character has traveled all over the United States) she travels without a passport to different parts of Europe.
The book reminds me the Dan Brown's books that I really enjoyed, but this series is for a young audience, as Avery, the main character, isn't yet 17. It is a book that you have an entangled spool, and when you think that you have unraveled the tangle, boom, another part of the spool is again tangled. I am happy that the other two books in the trilogy are out to read the continuation of the story because Maggie Hall left the first book in a cliffhanger, and I know that the second book of the series also has a huge cliffhanger.
You know that Maggie Hall is a well-traveled author because the descriptions of the places are very detailed. I like her writing, and I also know it won't be the last book I will read from Maggie Hall. Please read the book without knowing anything about it. On my next book haul, I know that the second and third books will be bought.

3.5
This book was so much fun!

I did not really care for this book. It originally had a lot of great reviews, but after reading it, I found the writing to be too fast-paced, the character relationships forced, and overall pretty bland. There's almost too much description of the detailed movements people make, too much focus on how something is happening rather than why it is happening. Many questions are also left unanswered until the last 75 pages or so of the book. Most of the time, I was very confused on what was going on and the background of The Circle. It does leave a little bit of a cliffhanger at the end that is somewhat provoking enough to want to know what happens next, but it was tough enough to make it to the end of this book that I don't know I'd want to continue reading what comes out next in the series.

This was a good read despite the slow start. The last few chapters really started picking up the pace. I usually like to "predict" what's going to happen and I am always happy when the book takes on a different approach from what I think would happen.

Immediately started the 3rd book as soon as the audiobook came to a close.

A truly brilliant ending to this story.

I couldn't get through this book fast enough and I wish I had taken my time with it! Luckily I can, and will, re-read it many times over. I am in LOVE with this series, each twist and turn makes so much sense and while a few were excellently foreshadowed, there are a couple things that made my jaw hit the floor! This is a great follow up to the first book and it leaves you begging Maggie Hall for book three. I'm also on the edge of my seat looking up stuff about Alexander the great and Paris, I've been to Paris, but never to Maggie Hall's Paris.

Okay, this book took me a moment to get into, I won't lie about that. The narration seemed eager, the accents, less than genuine, and the story a bit out there. However by about the 30 minute mark I was hooked. I don't know what changed, I don't know what did it for me, but all of a sudden I needed to know what happened next. I was falling for these characters before I knew them; I was getting to tumble about in this mystery of Alexander the great that even Robert Langdon couldn't unravel. More or most importantly, I was invested in what happened next. For about a day and a half this was all I could listen too or think about, and before book one was over I'd pre-ordered book two. I needed more that fast!

It was a fun ride!
I loved the maturation of Avery's character from when we first met her, and I would love to see where these characters go in their future adventures.

This was one of those books that at the 70% mark I thought to myself, should I slow down so I can savour this adventure, and dangit, I tried, but I kept turning the pages..

Great Job, Ms. Hall!

The premise was good and really interesting (I'm always a slut for ancient conspiracies) but the romance stuff ruined what was good about it.

What an amazing read! Fast paced with one hell of a cliffhanger! I can't wait for the next one! Fans of Ally Carter and Kate Kae Myers will love it!

It was hard to get back in the rhythm of Avery and Stellan's life as the possible 13th family in this possibly good or evil Circle. It's just been so long since I read the previous story. But, good news, this is the end of the trilogy and it was a fast paced, Da Vinci-codesque end to the series. I liked the settings that the core group traveled to in search of cures and clues. And I was very surprised who was running the marionette strings at the end.

Think Dan Brown conspiracy meets the love triangle of Twilight and you have this one in a nutshell- a fun tightly paced nutshell. I loved the Alexander puzzles and that she's able to see around what others take for granted [I like characters who think outside the box- those characters are a draw for me that pulls me into the story more.]

the Jack/Avery romance is sweet, yet forbidden and Stellan -the other potential romance partner- is a bad boy with a gentle side that she can see, where few others do. This is going to be a fun ride, can't wait for the next installment.

If you want to read about teens jet setting around Europe, wearing haute couture, and attending fancy parties on yachts, fashion houses, and palaces this is the book for you. And, it has a great cover. However, this book did not make me any more enamored of this kind of lifestyle or behavior than I was before. This is the second in a projected YA trilogy that started with Conspiracy of Us. This was purely easy listening and just as I was less than thrilled with the prospect of teens wearing designer clothes jet setting to the current hotspots around the world and spending copious amounts of money, all the while engaging in implausible filial duty to both mother, father, and family in the first book, this volume proved to be more of the same. So enough. This will be the end of this story for me. However, I am sure that teens will love it.½

The first half of this book is a bit slow, but after that the story gains momentum. I like Avery's character development, especially towards the end. Although I didn't like what happened to one of the characters close to Avery (after all the trouble she went through), I get why the author chose to do that. In the first book I was a fan of Jack (yes, another love triangle), but in this book I'm leaning towards Stellan, I think he has great chemistry with Avery. There are some parts that confused me, so I had to re-read it, but overall I enjoyed this book. Looking forward to reading the next one.½