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Downfall of Haddix book series

 The downfall of Margaret Peterson’s Haddix book series.

 

Margaret Petersons Haddix's book collection consists of 9 books. Found, Sent, Sabotaged, Torn, Caught, Risked, Rescued, Revealed, and Redeemed. I started reading this series in 6th grade and I still haven’t finished due to how incredibly repetitive and boring it got. The first book in the series, “Found” was a 10/10. I would still recommend it today. It is about two teenage friends. Jonah and Chip. Jonah always knew he was adopted. However, Chip did not know until recent events that later involve the FBI, a missing plane, missing people, and people disappearing and reappearing…including him. The next book “Sent”, was also very well written with many great plot twists. From what I’ve read, after “Sent”, the remaining of the series wasn’t interesting. The books were very predictable and written poorly. The cover art also started getting repetitive. However, I do feel the characters had good character development throughout the series. That’s a very consistent thing I do like about Margaret Peterson’s writing style; she writes in a way that will make you feel personal connections to the characters. It is very hard to write a series where all the books are interesting. I think she should’ve made the series 3 or 4 books, not 9. I would recommend this book series to people who are really interested in Sci-fi. To conclude, I think Margaret Petersons is an amazing author and has written other great series, but I don’t recommend this one.  

 

Judge these books by their cover.

Based on the covers, which book would u most likely pick up? Why?

 

 


Comments

  1. Maryalice KleinOctober 16, 2021 at 8:37 PM

    I really liked this review not only because of the writing, but also because I haven't seen many people writing blogs criticizing a series. I thought your points were valid and liked how you praised aspects of her writing while critiquing others. I read Found a while back but never continued with the series, and after reading this it's unlikely I'll return to it. In regards to the question, I'd probably pick up revealed since the title seems the most interesting. All in all this is a great review, good job!

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  2. fabi♡November 12, 2021 at 5:09 PM

    Great review!! I really appreciate the honesty on your behalf as to why you don't think it's a great series while still being able to point out positive things. Personally I can't really tell much of a difference between the covers but if I had to choose I think I'd go with redeemed because it is the most unique-looking one.

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