Jacques Mollentze Mollentze itibaren Bachmanning, Austria itibaren Bachmanning, Austria

I have now read eight Anastasia books in a row. Maybe I'm getting tired of them. Maybe this is because, at 29, I'm not really the intended audience. Maybe the quality of the writing is actually decreasing. Possibly the author is just running out of funny things to have Anastasia do, so the situations are getting more ridiculous. I don't know. In this volume, Anastasia decides to answer a personal ad in The New York Review of Books. Obviously, the person who placed the ad is much older than Anastasia, but he writes back to her anyway. I find it hard to believe that this individual would not realize from the quality of her writing that she is a teenager, but if that were the case, there wouldn't be much to have a book about, either. Also, Anastasia gets to be a junior bridesmaid in her friend's sister's wedding. I also find it hard to believe that sister did not have any other friends, so she has to stoop to having her 7th grade sister's friends be her bridesmaids. I find Anastasia's parents and younger brother far more compelling characters than Anastasia herself.

Not quite as good as the first one, but then again I always tend to like the first book in a series more than the rest... I LOVED this book! :)