For fans of Sadie and The Cheerleaders comes an all new thriller about a boy who turns up dead under suspicious circumstances and the one girl who may be the key to solving the mystery of his untimely death. For Ivy, summer means roller-coaster season, spinning cotton candy at the Fabuland amusement park, and hanging out with her best friend, Morgan. But this summer is diff For fans of Sadie and The Cheerleaders comes an all new thriller about a boy who turns up dead under suspicious circu...
| Title | : | All the Pretty Things |
| Author | : | Emily Arsenault |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Young Adult |
| ISBN | : | 1984897055 |
| Edition Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 pages pages |
All the Pretty Things Reviews
So...huh. The "mystery" of this book was glaringly obvious from the get go for me. So really I was just reading it to prove myself right, and was disappointed when I was. It wasn't mysterious enough for me. I also didn't connect to a single character, except m...
i?m gonna be real i skimmed this but in my defense i was like ten chapters in and bored out of my mf mind ...
ALL THE PRETTY THINGS tries to be this intense mystery, like it shows in the blurb. But it really does fall flat. The build-up to the big reveal is rather lackluster. Instead of tension it provides uncomfortable awkwardness as Ivy tries to find answers in all the wrong, and obtuse, way...
this honestly wasn?t the book i thought it was going to be. there could have been a lot that wasn?t in the book and it could have been a lot more suspenseful. i think i actually enjoyed about half of this book. half of it was boring and a lot of the protagonist just doing stuff. it...
Book #20 read in 2020 O????I??: Ivy?s family owns a neighborhood amusement park and she is her dad?s right-hand-girl. When her best Morgan finds the body of a classmate and coworker on the property, Ivy can?t be convinced that it was just an accident. So she sets o...
This one is a bit of a slow burn, for fans of "slice of life" YA contemporary who like messy characters and bits of suspense. I was drawn in initially by the "set at a small town amusement park" angle, which indeed is the book's strong suit. Fabuland felt so re...
It seems I side with the majority in saying that this wasn't what it proclaimed to be. After reading the summary, the reader expects this to be a mystery set in an amusement park, and the story is that to a small degree. What the summary leaves out is everything else. How Ivy spen...
Thank you to NetGalley for a Kindle ARC of All The Pretty Things. I was intrigued by the premise (and the cover! Can I say how much I love this cover?) and excited when my request was approved. But, then my excitement waned. This isn't so much a thriller than it is ab...
***Thank you to NetGalley for providing me a complimentary copy of ALL THE PRETTY THINGS by Emily Arsenault in exchange for my honest review.*** When Ivy?s best friend Morgan finds the body of a special needs young man, the teen ends up in a psych hospital leaving Ivy a cryptic me...
I received a free e-ARC through NetGalley from the publishers at Random House/Delacorte Press. Ivy has always been the boss?s daughter, first at her father?s doughnut chain, and now at Fabuland, an amusement park full of roller coasters, cotton candy, and princess parades. Everythi...![M. [storme reads a lot]](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1613262386p2/11748214.jpg)
The setting of the story is awesome, and it works well. This entire book is pretty much set in Fabuland Amusement park. I would have loved this story even more if the creepy factor was what I anticipated, but it still worked since most of the scenes were set in the park. So, the...
This feels more like a summer time read, since it takes place during the summer time and involves an amusement park for most of the setting. I actually really enjoyed the atmosphere of Fabuland. That's where it ends, though. The synopsis made it sound so much more than what it act...
1/5 - casually triple checked that this was supposed to be a thriller because there?s nothing thrilling about it - barely anything happens - Skip this ...
A whole lot of yikes. This was incredibly predictable, even with the attempted two 'mystery' storylines, and so uninteresting - I only finished this book because I was reading it through audio on 2x speed and I apprently like to waste my time. Our lead character Ivy ha...
I was really exited to read this. Unfortunately, it was another disappointing "thriller. It was pretty obvious just three chapters in that the dad was a creep. I still don't understand how the main character didn't notice or just pretended it wasn't a problem. She a...
Ivy comes back from vacation to find her small town in turmoil. An acquaintance and fellow Fabuland co-worker has died, and Ivy's best friend, Morgan, had the misfortune of finding his body. Even worse, Morgan has barricaded herself on one of Fabuland's rides after hours, and...
2 stars As someone who has read Sadie and The Cheerleaders, seeing those two compared to All the Pretty Things is like comparing apples to apple seeds. Especially with a lackluster mystery AtPT has when it made it obvious who the culprit was. Where this book fails is trying to ma...
Actual Rating - 2.5 Stars Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by the publisher, Random House Children?s, via Netgalley for an honest review. Wow. I mean? ? ?what the actual f**k? There were about a dozen different ways I saw this story going, but the way...
Well this is tough, because I loved the premise behind All the Pretty Things and it had some truly creepy moments, but the whodunnit is quite obvious from the early stages of the story. That, coupled with the stilted dialogue and dads who say "Ummm...?!" at the beginning of e...
Going into All the Pretty Things, I had some reservations. I had heard mixed reviews and wasn't sure what sort of experience I would have. Unfortunately, not great, although I've had worse. First off, the synopsis describes this book as an all new thriller about a ...
Well, I want to name my reads with Bryan Adams? ?So far so good?album but unfortunately I name them with my favorite U2 song and ?I still haven?t found what I?m looking for? This book seemed like a promising mystery. One young boy, Ethan who is also staff member, suffe...
*** Note: I received e-copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks to PRHGlobal for free copy. *** All the Pretty Things was YA small town mystery that revolved around Fabuland amusement park, Ethan?s death and reason behind Mo...
eARC provided by publisher through NetGalley. All opinions are my own. When I saw the blurb for this and it said for fans of Sadie and The Cheerleaders, I was sold! Two books I really enjoyed so I wasn?t going to to pass up on the opportunity to request this. It did keep my intere...
Seriously, Goodreads, where are the half stars? I would rate this one 4.5 stars. This book was not what I was expecting, but in the best possible way. There is a mystery, and yet it isn't the focal point of the novel despite the main character thinking it is for most of the book...
Hello! It's a new week! I am losing track of my days a little bit but it is a new week and I am hoping for some exciting things this week. I am reading a lot of books right now and playing a lot of video games (mostly animal crossing but my husband and I just finished playing...
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange of an honest review. TW: death, overdose, sexual harassment and assault, suicide thoughts Ivy Cork is the daughter of the owner of Fabuland, the amusement park in her city and during summer she usually takes care of the spinning cot...
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of All the Pretty Things! I dove into this book without reading the description first, because I wanted to really experience the excitement of the story. I will say that I absolutely love this book! The storyline and plot I found to ...
Ignorance is bliss... Need I say more? All the pretty things aren?t always what they seem. Great plot and premise, average at best execution. ...
3.5-4 Stars Reading this book was actually a mistake... but a mistake I'm glad I made! Some of you may have heard of the book, Tiny Pretty Things, which is soon to become a Netflix original series. When I checked this out on Libby, I thought I was going to read the soapy, d...
A young boy Ethan who suffers from down syndrome is found dead at an amusement park by Morgan. After the incident, Ivy who is the daughter of the park owner returns back from her holiday in bad shape. Ivy who takes much responsibility co-manages the park interrogating everyone about t...
