The Double Jinx Mystery (#50)įor the most part solid, but oh, that last chapter comes RIGHT out of nowhere and slaps you with the stupid stick. Why would you ever fly through a magnetized cloud on purpose. Ivory Charm: The Redux, this time without the racism and mystical weirdness. Such a promising story, but it could have been solved so easily if Ned wasn’t a nitwit. I struggled with where to place this one. This is not a mystery, it’s five mysteries in a trench coat, and I think they forgot to solve one of them… 42. Also Nancy pretends to be Japanese for zero reason. Not the weakest note for Nancy to go out on, but certainly not the strongest. If they had dropped the bridge on the dude creeping on Nancy, I’d rank this higher. A lot got crammed into the last five or so chapters. I think they spent too much time faffing about in Amish country and not enough time building up the mystery. Mysteries aren’t supposed to put you to sleep.
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If you want tips on how to ski or start a mink farm, this is the book for you. How do you make a tour of the Hawaiian islands this boring? By using it as padding in your weak, weak mystery. Nancy, stop kidnapping children and go get the cops already. The Strange Message in the Parchment (#54)
This one’s dull enough that it gets distracted by Ned’s football game three quarters of the way through. Sloppy sleuthing and sloppy editing combine into one mess of a mystery. And since I’ve had Nancy Drew books on the brain lately, I decided that I would read my way through the entire collection and tell you nice readers all about them.Īnd so, without further ado (a-Drew?), I present to you the complete and indisputable ranking of all 56 original Nancy Drew adventures, from worst to best.ĥ2. Recently, while cleaning out the attic, I spotted 56 bright yellow spines, still in good condition, glowing on a dusty shelf. I owned them all, but I don’t remember how many I actually read.
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I must confess: the PC games were a bigger part of my childhood than the Nancy Drew books. New Nancy Drew books were published after 1979, including multiple spin-off series, but they had different publishers, creating a dividing line between the first 56 and all the rest. Fifty-six books, to be exact, published from 1930 to 1979 by Grosset & Dunlap and written by many authors under the pen name Carolyn Keene. This could be fine for a season but I can't see it going on longer than that.Nancy Drew has starred in movies, TV shows, computer games, and comics-but it all started with Nancy Drew books. Fans who've only vaguely heard of her before would enjoy it more than someone whose known her all their life(like I have). It feels like they came up with the concept and put Nancy's name on it for attention. It has little to do with the source material besides the small snippets and the actress playing Nancy reenacting a few covers. I'm fine with him having a love interest but since they have Nancy's mom die a year before the show takes place instead of when she was a kid, it's actually really uncomfortable.
Carson is just a jerk and lawyers can't represent their own children. So basically the same as any cliche bad boy/girl from every movie/tv show/book/dating sim ever made. George doesn't seem to have much of an personality beyond a bad attitude, tattoos, and a leather jacket. Totally annoyed that they casted a skinny girl to play Bess, it's 2019 I expected her original weight to not be ignored/shamed. George and Bess(no longer cousins) may be the biggest offenders next to Carson Drew. A lot of the characters don't feel like the characters they're supposed to be. I will admit the fact that the change from white to black also meant a change from honor student quarterback to ex-con, was not the smartest move on their part. The actor mostly fits Ned's basic description (tall,dark and handsome lol) and his loyalty to Nancy. Ned is seemingly the only character that has the most in common with his book counterpart, which isn't to say it's accurate. It tied up threads almost too quickly (already).
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Right off the bat with the pilot, it doesn't have the true Nancy Drew feel and if the pilot is supposed to set up the rest of the series it doesn't bode well. It tied As a long time fan of Nancy Drew I can safely say that this series wasn't made for long time fans. As a long time fan of Nancy Drew I can safely say that this series wasn't made for long time fans.
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