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Dragon Hills 2

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Here we go again! Meet our fearless girl, a few years later! Zombies! ...Why???...

Space Attack: Chicken Shooter

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This is a classic Shoot'em Up. Your goal will be quite challenging as you will have to save the...

Tentacles: Enter the Dolphin

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Eat squishy eyeballs! This is the prequel to Tentacles - Enter the Mind. The game is a premium...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2206 KP) rated What Happened at Midnight in Books

Aug 27, 2020

Nighttime Crime

Frank and Joe Hardy are shocked when they get the new request from their father, famed detective Fenton Hardy. He wants them to break into a house and steal something. Of course, it is to keep an invention for his client safe. However, doing that puts the boys on the radar of a gang of smugglers. Will they be able to protect the invention and round up the smugglers?

I remember as a kid the title really intriguing me. Yes, several scenes take place at midnight, but the title isn’t as relevant to the story as it might be. That hardly matters since the story is so action packed that it is hard to put it down. Coincidence rules quite a bit, and the characters are thin. Elements are also very dated today. So in other words, it’s a typical Hardy Boys book. Still, I take that into account when I pick up one of these books, and I enjoy the nostalgia I get from revisiting these old friends.

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2206 KP) rated The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6) in Books

May 5, 2020

Helping a Stranger on a Train

Nancy and her friends Bess and George are returning from a shopping trip when they meet Joanne on the train. She is heading to try to find a job to help her grandmother save her farm. The four quickly become friends, and Nancy gets involved in helping her find a job. However, several strange things happen to them along the way. Can Nancy figure out what is going on now?

When I pick up a Nancy Drew book, I expect coincidence to drive the plot a little. Here, there was so much of it early on that it was hard to overlook it. Fortunately, that lessened as the story moved forward. The story was still action packed and kept my attention. The characters are thin as always, but I still enjoyed spending some time with them again. Kids will probably more easily overlook both of these things. They might get confused by a few dated references, however, including using an old, now unacceptable, term for a minority. Still, I suspect they will enjoy this page turning story.