Too Political

I grabbed book 2 in the Cipher series because book one was amazing and had a cliff hanger ending, but man.. where's the story instead of the politics in this book? Why do characters suddenly have a new skin colour? Why are all the white men evil? Why are all the white woman who don't have power jobs mean? Why are the children of color described kindly while the children of pasty white described as "some white kid"?

It really feels like the author felt need to hit on every buzz word of the 2018/19 in order to write a book she felt would sell and sell well. In doing so the story is lost. We get to hear 2 minutes of forward progress followed by 5 minutes of false information about the history of the police. We hear 30 seconds of character development, followed by another 5 minutes of information on feminism. Another minute of story action, and then we are drowning in the evils of the average white male again. It's made it very irritating to listen to this book.

I read/listen to books to escape the drama of the political world, and when a book drowns us in that same nonsense it lands right back on the shelf. I rarely.

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Great follow up

Once again, middle grade mysteries rock! They're so much fun and not weighed down with too much dialogue and paced well. There is so much going on in this book and even when we get clues, there's more questions. I also loved that we got random points of view, like Rocket the raccoon and Candy the blonde woman lol. This book didn't have the urgency of the first, there's no deadline to solving the cipher and so it was a little slower. I still had fun listening to it and even laughed a couple times, especially at Oh No. I can't wait for the conclusion to see if my theories are correct and find out if they solve the cipher!