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Bad Machinery Vol. 6: The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor
Bad Machinery Vol. 6: The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor | John Allison
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School is out for summer, and for the Tackleford mystery team, that means lazy days, balmy evenings, and... creeping existential dread that threatens the whole city. With half the team gallivanting off to exotic locales (like Aunty Kath's in Margate), can Linton, Jack, and Lottie solve this season's most dire case? The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor, the sixth book in John Allison's award-winning Bad Machinery series, pits our young heroes against the terrors of the unfamiliar and unknown. Lottie's mum and sister have both fallen in love (thanks to the internet), Linton is determined to save his father from the soul-sucking responsibility of a promotion, and why is Jack working at the local paper with team nemesis (and hot-shot reporter) Erin Winters? Isn't print meant to be dead? Could the link between these tangled threads be The Night Creeper, who prowls Tackleford's streets and leaves people in the hospital with a blank stare and a terrible smile on their face?
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jmtrivera
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A slow start, but then the mystery starts ramping up and the joke start landing. Unlike some of the previous ones, the storyline makes sense throughout the book. This makes for a very satisfying conclusion, though not the one you might expect. This story focuses just on a few characters, which I don't always like, but it really allowed them to develop and contribute individually. And of course a lot of giggles! One of the best so far.

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jmtrivera
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Another line from this series I'll have to remember that I saved from my Readathon reading. "I'm not crying! All right? I've just got hot eyes!" ?
I giggled a few times at this book.

Ddzmini 🤣🤣🤣 6y
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jmtrivera
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Three down so far in the #EclecticReadathon! Now that Toddlersaurus is napping and I still have 6.5 hours, I'm going to start on the next one!

Ms_T Toddlersaurus 😂 6y
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Mindelan
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Kicking back with some chilled coffee and comics this morning. Was able to get this on the FIRST TRY at the new library (which softened the sting of them NOT OWNING the earlier books in the Meg Langslow series). I'm about half-way through and the series continues to be a mix of John Allison's delightfully goofy humor and dialogue with a Nightvale-esque contrast of darker twists. I'm so sad that there is only one more book in the series!

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ABookishLife
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Cat helps me read graphic novels

britt_brooke Great photo! 7y
Tanzy13 🐱 7y
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quietjenn
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Bad Machinery always delights.

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