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Post by barneynedward on Jan 7, 2022 19:11:51 GMT -5
I don’t think they released the 3rd book yet. It was supposed to be released, but never was. I saw it at my local Barnes and Noble.
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Post by ScoobyAddict on Jan 7, 2022 19:27:33 GMT -5
I don’t think they released the 3rd book yet. It was supposed to be released, but never was. I saw it at my local Barnes and Noble. The author of book 3 confirmed 5 days ago on Twitter that the book has still not been released. If you saw it at B&N, you are very lucky.
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Post by barneynedward on Jan 9, 2022 16:47:07 GMT -5
Maybe it was briefly released as a Barnes & Noble exclusive. I remember reading it while I was browsing.
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Post by Doo on Jul 30, 2022 8:48:54 GMT -5
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Post by Doo on Sept 7, 2022 9:49:50 GMT -5
I read the third book last night, and really enjoyed it! The writing is solid, the plot is great, and the characterizations of each of the gang members is done really well. I particularly like how they sort of build Shaggy's personality off of him having trouble making close friends like he was in Mystery Begins. The Ghost of Silas Mohl was a super creepy villain. The author did a great job with creating a spooky feel with the imagery and description during the scenes when the ghost showed up. The book also felt more high-stakes than the previous ones, given a character is stabbed to death . The one aspect of this book I didn't like was the Fred/Velma romantic drama. I will say that it was done much better than Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, since it wasn't a toxic relationship like Velma and Shaggy had. However, in general, I don't really like overly angsty teenage romance, so stuff like "I dashed up the steps, cursing my heart for its insistence on beating double time whenever I saw him!" just comes off as overly dramatic to me. That's not to say the author did a bad job, because I completely realize that the target audience for this book is teenagers and this fits perfectly with that genre; it's just hopeless pining isn't an element I enjoy.
One thing I thought this trilogy as a whole did really well was tying in pieces of continuity from previous media in the franchise. In this book alone, we had Shaggy's cousin be named Jack as a reference to Dapper Jack (from Shaggy's Showdown), Shaggy's mother was a police officer just like his father was in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Shaggy's father was named Samuel like in SDMI, Daphne's parents' and sisters' names were carried over from SDMI, and Velma and her parents were Latinx, just like she was in SCOOB!. They easily could have just made up random names for all these people, so I thought it was really cool that they did a deep dive and pulled all these different aspects from the franchise to fit this story. This was an amazing series of novels and although I'm sad they're over, I think they made a great contribution to the Scooby franchise.
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