Trouble is a Friend of Mine
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3.9
(224)
Stephanie Tromly
Shortlisted for the Peters Book of the Year.Preparing to survive a typical day of being Digby's friend wasn't that different from preparing to survive the Apocalypse When Digby first shows up on her doorstep, Zoe Webster is not impressed. He's rude, he's smart, and he doesn't take 'no' for an answer. But before she knows it, Digby has dragged her into a series of hilarious and dangerous situations all related to an investigation into the kidnapping of a girl from their high school. A kidnapping that may be connected to the tragic disappearance of his own sister eight years ago.Peppered with razor-sharp dialogue, this is a romance that is decidedly unromantic, a crime novel where catching the crook isn't the only hook, and a debut novel you won't forget.
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Author
Stephanie Tromly
Pages
224
Publisher
Bonnier Publishing Fiction
Published Date
2015-08-06
ISBN
147140496X 9781471404962
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"The most consistent type of book I've continued to google for and ask people for since like 2015 is the Jennifer Lynn Barnes/Ally Carter/YA Sherlock Holmes retelling type of deal. I am all for the little tropey teenage crews solving mysteries, performing heists, being competent/smart/badass, trading witty dialogue, and generally doing things that go well beyond the scope of reality. I've also been known to go for the occasional troubled/erratic boy genius who keeps randomly showing up and getting the protagonist involved in his problems (This is a trope, I'm not making it up I swear.) (For a non-mystery version, see <a href="https://www.wattpad.com/story/202349674-the-boy-who-broke-mirrors">this wattpad book I recommend,</a> which I think is going paid the day after tomorrow btw). Anyways, I have been actively searching for books like this since 2015, and this book has been out since 2015, and apparently every library I subscribe to has ebook copies on libby, and yet the only reason I ever came across it was because I found myself at the physical library and was aimlessly browsing spines in the YA section the good old-fashioned way. I love going to the library.<br/><br/>Anyway. This book does not add to the genre. I didn't get particularly attached to really any of the characters, nor were the villains particularly interesting. I am convinced there were some continuity errors between books (I could swear in the first book Phillip and Sally were in bunk beds the night of her kidnap). I may have yelled "why?" or "what happened to...?" at some point.<br/>BUT. I have read a LOT of trash in pursuit of this type of book. Way more than my goodreads would let on because even with my tolerance for trash, most of the time I give up or start skimming within the first couple of chapters. Turns out that where Ally Carter's characters can get away (in my books) with their bejeweled hatchets and their "Is it Hansel and Gretel?","Can't be, we only have the one grenade launcher", the over-the-top-ness is a tightrope and a lot of books that attempt this tone come off as cheesy and insufferable. Stephanie Tromley pulls it the **** off. <br/><br/>Whatever critiques I have about this series, the fact remains that it is super fast-paced. I read the three-book series in three days and never went to bed without finishing the book I'd started that day (which also means that for 3 consecutive nights this series had me up til 4am when I knew I had to work the next day.) The slapstick-ish humour also had me <i>laughing out loud at 4am</i> multiple times. What can I say except that simply meeting my expectations in a book like this is actually a gigantic score that made my week."
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Emily
"Definitely! One of the funniest books I’ve ever read! "
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Caitlyn Tompkins
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