Lucinda's Secret (Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3) by Holly Black Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Lucinda's Secret (Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3)
Book Review: Continues apace.
Summary: 3 Stars
Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, Lucinda's Secret (Simon and Schuster, 2003)
The third Spiderwick book is here, and things keep going along in their own inimitable fashion. Once again, the book starts off in the same rather weak fashion as did The Seeing Stone, but wraps up the oddly out-of-place stuff much more quickly than that one did, and we're off to the races. I've reached the point in the series where it's impossible to give any sort of plot description without spoiling earlier volumes, so I'll refrain.
As with the last book, once things get rolling, this is fun stuff, easily read. It doesn't have the depth of something like His Dark Materials, but then it's not meant to; these are simple, easy-to-read tales that are perfect for the child who's just beginning to read on his or her own and is still enchanted with the fairy-tale world. Some parents might want to take a quick run through to make sure everything's copacetic with their worldview (for example, the house brownie has a habit of expressing his displeasure by, shall we say, taking a leak), but I'd say this is workable for the six-and-up set. The kids' home situation might bring up some questions that would be interesting to explain to a six-year-old but then six-year-olds are a lot more accepting of some things than adults are. ***
Book Review: Getting Better, Getting Better
Summary: 4 Stars
The Spiderwick Chronicles has always been an enjoyable series to me, ever since I read the first book. Let's recap a bit.
Book 1 was intriguing, hinting at events to come
Book 2, the action begins
Now, here we are in book three, "Lucinda's Secret." To provide for some backstory, the Grace children visit their believed-to-be-crazy old Aunt Lucy, who gives some insight about the past of Arthur Spiderwick and the dangerous of Faeries. The Grace children, obviously, do not take heed and find themselves in encounters with elves and a phooka.
This book is a bit better then the previous two, because there is no more waiting--the action has begun, and it seems that it won't stop until the end of the five book series. The villain Mulgarath is spoken of for the first time, and the book in itself is VERY enjoyable. While it's short and can be read in a little less then an hour, it's definitely worth reading.
Just to add this in: this series is not a rip-off of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Yes, the formats are very noticeably similar and it's about three children, but the story is so utterly different that once you read it, you laugh at the comparisons. Happy reading!
7/10
Book Review: Lucinda's Secret
Summary: 4 Stars
My baby brother reads Spiderwick and from his giggles I know he likes it. The Spiderwick Chronicles is one story spread over five books. The books are very short, about 120 pages each with many illustrations, and it took me a little over an hour to read each book.
Lucinda's Secret is the third book in The Spiderwick Chronicles. By this book, the Grace children - nine-year-old twins, Simon and Jared, and thirteen-year-old, Mallory - are starting to see how much Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide is putting them in danger and they decide to talk with their Aunt Lucinda about the book. The only problme is that Aunt Lucinda is locked away in an asylum. But Aunt Lucinda really isn't crazy.
Simon, Jared and Mallory work to convince their mother to bring them to Aunt Lucinda for a visit. They hope to ask her about Arthur Spiderwick and The Field Guide but the angry house brownie named Thimbletack has other ideas.
The Spiderwick Chronicles are all quick, good reads and recommended for little brothers.
Book Review: A historical secret
Summary: 5 Stars
Lucinda's secret was a very good book this one included lots of things you needed to know about the Spiderwick estate and lots of things about Arthur Spiderwick.The funniest bit was when she woke up in the middle of the night and found that her had been strangled to the banners of her bed.The Phooka was very creative because how it stays on a tree all day long.Its kind of like a monkey.I wish i knew what "bonny bonny bonny", meant.I think the unicorn could have had more features for example(no hair no tail)and so on.The faeries were very uniqe with their features.I recomend this book for people who like imaginitive stories.Book Review: Book Three....
Summary: 4 Stars
Book Three of the Spiderwick Chronicles...
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Since there first adventure the children have been very cautious to what is around them and feel like they need to console the rightful owner of the Spiderwick Estate...there 'crazy' Aunt Lucinda.
On arrival the children are amazed to find out that Lucinda actually believes in faries and she is under a farie spell, inabling he to eat real food. She gives the Grace children a little history lesson about her father, the one that made the guide and supposedly took it.
This is when Jared pulls out the book only to discover that it isn't the book...the book has been stollen.
Jared emidiatly assumes that it was Mallory who took the book and attacks her, she swears it wasn't her and must have been Thimbletack.
Going to the study they search for the house brownie only to find several maps of where elves and other creatures live.
Thay all head out on a journey where they think Lucinda's father went off to...and discover elves who want the guide...but remembering they don't have it...the elves get angrey and trap Jared...they play a trick on the elves and all get away...but what lies beyond the greater mystery of this book will have you yearning to read the next.
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This book is probally the one that set's it up for the last two books and pulls them all together.