The Wig in the Window

De: Kristen Kittscher

Narrado por: Amanda Philipson

In this funny and clever middle grade mystery reminiscent of Rear Window and perfect for fans of the Mysterious Benedict Society series, Sophie Young and Grace Yang are best friends, seventh graders, and spies.

Sophie and Grace have made a game out of spying on their neighbors. On one of their midnight stakeouts, they witness a terrifying scene at the home of their bizarre middle-school counselor Dr. Charlotte Agford (also known as Dr. Awkward).

At least, they think they do. When the girls are proven wrong, they are still convinced that Dr. Agford is hiding a terrible secret—and they're determined to find out what it is. Soon the girls are breaking secret codes, being followed by a strange blue car, and tailing strangers with unibrows and Texas accents. But as their investigation heats up, Sophie and Grace start to crack under the pressure. Will solving the case destroy their friendship?

The Wig in the Window

This is one of my favorite books it really brought me to not stop listining. It was full of the mystery and excitement i love in a book. I'm so glad I listened to this book. I gave it five stars for those four reasons.

Cute but not great

If a light and cute kids mystery is what you're looking for, then this is perfect. My 12 year old and I read it together, she disliked the book entirely. I appreciated what it was, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone that enjoys good literature. The performance was good, but the voices for some characters were annoyingly contrived.

Ineffective Characters

The narrator for this book isn't very good. She does do one voice extremely well, that of Agford. But the two main characters, Grace and Sophie, are indistinguishable. Also, the character of Trista and every male in the book sound the same.

Overall, I found the main characters tedious due to all of their jumps to conclusions, which happened constantly. Besides being rather dull, the two main characters really only affect the main plot and the unraveling of the mystery accidentally. They snoop around, they find some stuff, and despite spending hours googling, they don't research very thoroughly and miss key details.

The worst is that the main character, Sophie, the daughter of two rocket scientists, believes in feng shui and keeps quoting Sun Tzu. The Sun Tzu quotes would have been great if they weren't so overly abundant, but all the feng shui nonsense was just stupid.