#stuart gibbs we are fighting in the denny's parking lot

[soda-gremlin]

Spy school goes wild was certainly...a book.

I don't know what the general consensus is about this book, but I feel like the two hours I spent reading that book were basically tossed down the drain.

I don't have the energy to be specific, but everything I expected this book to have, it didn't.

(Spoilers under the cut)

The "Murray and Ben getting stuck in the wilderness having to work together" thing (that the blurb actively advertised) was just a damn bit. It didn't even last a third of the book.

Stuart Gibbs said he would reveal Murray's backstory in this book. Guess what?? He doesn't have one. He was just a normal ass kid, and those two pages were just a tacked on message about "Evil isn't always a result of some tragic backstory 🤓 🤓 " No gray area, no ambiguity, no nuance, nothing. Just more "Murray's EVIL because he's BAD, Ben's GOOD because he's GOOD" And they also dragged Joshua into it too, saying that he didn't have a backstory either, as if that wasn't bad enough.

I know I'm delulu, but please tell me I'm not the only one who feels massively disappointed,,,