13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

This one is somewhere between two and three stars for me, but I have to go with the lower rating because a.) I liked it less than 13 Little Blue Envelopes, and b.) the things that bothered me bothered me. Overall, however, it was a fun, good read that I might even give a go again sometime in the future when I’m in the mood to revisit Europe. I mean, don’t best friends deserve at least a couple of mentions? Amiright? Knowing the kind of people Aunt Peg used to consort with, wouldn’t they be a bit suspicious? And (2), in the first book Ginny composes a few letters to her best friend Miriam, and in this book I don’t think she was mentioned even once. Two other things I think are worthy of mentioning are: (1) I found it hard to believe that Ginny’s parents would send her all the way to England based on some phone calls with Richard, Aunt Peg’s hubby. But, seriously, can someone PLEASE tell me what was up with his coming on to Ginny repeatedly despite the fact that he had, ahem, a GIRLFRIEND. He actually seemed like a reeeeally nice guy! Keith in this book was a lot more, let’s say, tolerable in this book. I do wish we’d gotten to know him better once we’d found out his motives behind the blackmailer-façade. Oliver, the oh-so-mysterious, snobby and (SUPER-DUPER) tall, dark and handsome dude was…well, hot. I mean, yes, she visits Amsterdam and Paris again, and even goes to Ireland (!), but for some reason, it just kind of didn’t have that spark.īut like I said, the characters in this book were more fleshed-out. And…all right, I’ll admit it, this book was kind of missing that all-over-Europe charm of the first book.

Obviously, since the last envelope never got revealed in the first book, I was definitely wanting to find out what’s in it.

The plot was fast, yes, and in this book, unlike the first one, the characters definitely were more developed, so in that regard it was great.

Was it good? Yeah! But was it amazing? Out-of-the-roof wonderful? Erm, I wouldn’t say that. Truth is, I don’t really have that much to say about this book.

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson