The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Enjoyable Read? Yes
Would I read it again? No.
This one was really just fluff. I enjoyed the story, I liked the characters, I finished it with no strong feeling either way. It reminded me at times of the Lemony Snicket series, which I did like but didn’t love. The premise of this one is that a group of super smart kids (orphans) get together to invade a school, run by the bad guy, and foil his plot to take over the world. Things work put pretty much how you would expect – a couple of twists where someone turns out to be someone else, heroes that didn’t like each other at the beginning end up being friends, the orphans find families.
That is exactly how I feel about the Lemony Snicket series. We only have the first 10? or less. I want to finish the series, but I’m in no rush to do so.