Mallory Pike, No.1 Fan

Wow. Mallory pretty much comes across as an idiot in this one.

I think your average eleven-year-old would certainly have a better grasp of how fiction works, especially one that is supposedly determined to be a writer of fiction.

The part about Mallory’s play feels clichd. It is highly predictable, but at least makes an important point.

Some aspects of the story are nice, but unlikely to have transpired thusly in real life; however, I don’t really fault that. It is, after all, fiction.

Some elements are worthwhile, but the story as a whole is certainly very lacking.

This book said that one person lied because she wrote a FICTIONAL book stating that Alice Anderson had a good family, though the author didnt. So?
I give this book a 4\10
I guess it was okay, besides your lying

Speaking as a huge fan of the series despite its flaws, this book sucks. In plot A, Mallory gets a part-time job helping out her new favorite author, and then feels “betrayed” when she discovers that the happy childhood in the author’s books didn’t really happen and the characters don’t actually exist. I mean, what’s WRONG with you, Mallory? Were you “lying” when you wrote the story about “Tess In The Middle” or whatever it was called, or when you made up those two mice characters in “New York, New York”? It’s called FICTION. You won an AWARD for writing it. And now we’re supposed to believe that she no longer understands the basic definition of the term?

Meanwhile, to drive the point home, Mallory’s writing a play for some elementary school kids to perform as some class project. The play consists of a family called the Spikes, with names like Ranessa and Gordon, wandering around on the stage being stupid. Because a) Mallory thinks she has to depict real life exactly as it is and b) Mallory is an arrogant nitwit.

The book would MAYBE work, a TINY bit, if this was the first time we’d seen Mallory trying to be a writer. But we’ve obviously seen in several previous books that she is much smarter than this, even if she is a toad. I can’t believe Ann M. Martin okayed this swill.

This is one of my favorite BSC books. Mallory is excited to find out that her favorite author is living in Stoneybrook. She is even more so when she meets her and is asked to be her assistant. I enjoyed Mallory and the introduction of Henrietta Hayes.

i think this one of my favorite BSC books yet. it is a great book. mallory discovers that her fav author is living near her. she discovered things about henrietta hayes past that ms hayes does not want to share. overall it was a good book and i enjoyed it.

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