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Posey Spade loves asking questions—it’s what’s going to make her a fantastic journalist someday. And ever since her best friend and crush chose someone else, Posey’s only focusing on her future career.

Unfortunately, she’s just moved to the small town of Wild Pines—which doesn’t provide a lot of groundbreaking journalism opportunities, only a scrappy AV Club full of self-proclaimed slackers . . . who Posey must somehow inspire to greatness.

She never thought that inspiration would come from the disappearance of the club’s beloved sponsor and teacher, Ms. Moses. But as the days tick by with no answers, Posey and the AV Club take it upon themselves to dig into the mystery.

From a nepotism scandal to a local cult, Posey learns a lot about her new town. And as she spends more time with the AV Club, she also learns that friendship is just as necessary to solving a mystery as lots of questions. Good thing Posey has both.

Short and Sweet Review

Posey and her father just moved to the small town of Wild Pines. Posey immediately knows she wants to join the high schools AV Club, what she didn’t realize is that the other members of the club aren’t as motivated as she is. When the club’s sponsor Ms. Moses goes missing, Posey sees this as her chance to lead the other members of the club to make groundbreaking news and find their teacher.

This book had a great concept but failed at execution. Posey is our main character and she’s determined to get things done, she comes in a bit hot and ready to throw out ideas, but she doesn’t know any of the other members of the club to come in like their leader. There’s five other members of the AV club and the most important one is Sal because he’s actually their leader. I feel like the rest of the members of the AV club were just their so it could seem like it was a club that had members, they’re in the book but don’t really add anything important. Sal on the other hand is a romantic interest for Posey but the sparks were not flying off the page and there were times when Posey thought he was a suspect. There were rumors going around the school that Sal and Ms. Moses were too close but once we figure out she’s just one of those teachers who cares about her students at an above and beyond level it made sense. When the AV club starts making content about Ms. Moses going missing it starts making waves in this small town. I enjoyed reading the transcripts and seeing the comments on their videos. I don’t want to spoil anything but what happened at the end just isn’t possible, I even did my own research and it’s just not happening. I feel like the ending was okay and some of the side plots weren’t completely answered.

Overall, this was an okay book. I love mysteries but I think when I read the ending I was just upset at the outcome it also didn’t seem like there was an urgency at finding their teacher but more of an emphasis on making content. I personally didn’t enjoy this book as I went into it thinking I would have, but I can see people liking this book and looking past the issues I had with it.