GR Summer Challenge 2019: Short and Sweet: a book with less than 100 pages or finish in 1 sitting

The Mystery of Alice by Lee Bacon

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


13 year old Emily won a full scholarship to a VERY elite prep school in NYC. She finds that Alice is the other winner and the two become friends against the elite of the elite in the school. The other students are kids who have never known want in their lives. Money means nothing to them. Rules are for other people and there are no such things as consequences because Mommy and Daddy can come and fix it with more money.

Then suddenly Alice starts hanging out with the UBER elite, the group everyone calls "The Nobility". And then... Alice goes missing and Emily starts trying to find out what happens. This means working with and making friends with The Nobility. But she quickly learns that money cannot buy happiness and what she thinks happened to Alice is not even close to reality.

I'm hesitant to call this an audiobook. It's more of an Audiodrama. It's told completely through a series of vlog (video log/diary) posts by Emily --- with occasional comments from other characters. The acting was good. However the voices in no way said "middle school kids" more of High Schoolers. And frankly, the story didn't feel right for me for kids in 7th and 9th grade. More like 11 or 12.

This short story (it clocks in just under 7 hours) was engrossing as I did want to see what the twists were and, while I did kinda see what was coming in the end, it was good. Am I going to listen to it again? Probably not (unless maybe I have a long car trip and have no other options). Would I recommend it? Maybe if you could get it the way I did - a free copy through my audible membership.



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