Reviews for PaperQuake: A Puzzle

The average rating for PaperQuake: A Puzzle based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-27 00:00:00 Keith Love 2.5 stars I bought this book from the Scholastic Book Fair when I was 9 and remember reading it and loving it as a kid... so there's 20 years of nostalgia attached to this book. Unfortunately, it didn't really age well for me. Rereading it at 29, I found there was a lot of dated references and I hated how shallow the characters were. The temporal time travel bit relies HEAVILY on suspension of disbelief. The writing style also felt a bit awkward - a little too old for MG, but definitely not mature enough for modern YA. Adding to the fact that the main character calls in a fake bomb threat and is ultimately called a hero for it in the newspaper (although this is 1998! So they couldn't trace the call - drat!) I actually hesitate to even recommend it to an appropriately aged reader... don't want kids to think that stealing things from museums to solve mysteries and calling in bomb threats because you had a bad dream/vision is okay... eek. So this one fell pretty far for me. _________________ Original Review: 4 Stars

Review # 2 was written on 2010-12-19 00:00:00 Boyd Marshall Good romantic mystery, with a historical time-travel aspect (just through letters, not actual time travel). Violet is one of triplet girls, but due to a heart ailment she's always been the weaker, timid sister, so much so that others think her sisters are twins and she's the odd one out. She gets caught up in a mystery left behind in letters and diary pages from a girl who lived in her family's old San Francisco house in 1906. She feels a kinship with "V", this long-ago girl who was sickly and in love with the same boy as her nursemaid, and Violet also gets visions that seem to be predicting the future. It's a really neat puzzle of a story that gets pretty suspenseful near the end.