Lucinda's Secret by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black Series: The Spiderwick Chronicles #3
Published by Simon and Schuster on October 1, 2003
Genres: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General, Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic, Juvenile Fiction / General
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles and get ready for the series soon to be streaming on Roku with this third installment in the adventures of the Grace children featuring an all-new look.
As if being attacked by goblins and a bridge troll weren’t enough, Jared is now being targeted by Thimbletack. Simon is keeping an injured and very hungry griffin hidden in the carriage house. And Mallory is convinced the only way to get things back to normal is to get rid of the Guide. But that doesn’t seem to be an option. With more creatures from Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You popping up, the Guide seems to be the only protection the Grace kids have. But why do the faeries want it so badly? There’s only one person to go to for answers—their fragile and confused Aunt Lucinda.
I have owned the first five books in “The Spiderwick Chronicles” for several years and always wanted to get around to reading them, but like a lot of stuff I kept putting off reading the five books even though I knew they would be easy reads. I recently started a “read my book shelves” challenge in my mind and it has helped me to start reading my books. I decided to read these 5 books because it would allow my brain to start feeling like I was accomplishing reading and sometimes that is what we have to do as readers when we have lapsed. We have to jump start our reading back up and that is why I chose to read this series.
The same day that I finished the 2nd book in the series, I immediately started “Lucinda’s Secret” in this series. I wanted to see what was next and I am glad I did. This book was a surprise in this series and made me more than enthusiastic to continue reading the rest of the series. This book took the entire series and made it one rating better because this was a BOOK!
The book revolves a bit more on the Grace kids trying to figure out what is going on with certain things. The series elements that drew me into the series the most were in this book. Since book 1, we have heard of the aunt whose house the family was living in and this book, we finally get to meet Lucinda. She was honestly the BEST CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE SERIES. I adored her. She added a needed plot element that we didn’t have before. Someone that believed the children and was able to direct them into the future of the other 2 books. We also get a lot of elements that are just more enjoyable within this book than have been within the other two. We even find out that a character we assumed was dead, is actually alive for a reason that makes a lot of sense in the world that faeries exist. These elements created a near perfect book, but it still has moments.
There is still a weird overall quick and almost like “what is even the plot” at times during this book in the series, but because of the Lucinda moment it stayed pretty up there in rating for me. There are moments after Lucinda is visited that I was like “okay what are they even doing?” I have felt this in every single book though that the plot was a bit meh. I still was able to push through the books though and get to the ending. This one was a bit easier than the others though, which is why it is ranked higher than the other books in the series so far. I could definitely see people getting to this book and being like me where it excited them to finish the other two books in the series. If you get to this book, you will push through. Trust me!
There are five books in the initial series of “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, but a few years later Tony and Holly got back together to write three more books that are called “Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles” which I have yet to read. I plan on buying these before too much longer so that I can say I have read most of what they have published for this world.
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