Title: The Case of the Disappearing Pets (Mina Mistry (Sort of) Investigates #2)
Author: Angie Lake, Ellie O’Shea (illustrator)
Genre: Children’s, Mystery
Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing
Source: Publisher via NetGalley
Format: Ebook
Release Date: February 4, 2021
Rating: ★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
Disappearing hamsters? Vanishing toads? Missing snails? This needs investigating.
This looks like a case for Mina Mistry…An explosion at the local pet shop shows Mina that this pet palaver can’t be a coincidence. But why is someone stealing all the animals? What do they want them for?
About the Mina Mistry Investigates series:
Introducing Mina Mistry, witty schoolgirl detective and soon-to-be Private Investigator. Mina Mistry Investigates is a fun detective series packed with comic-style illustrations and mystery-solving throughout.Great for reluctant readers aged 7+ and fans of Planet Omar and Dork Diaries.
Review:
After a pet presentation at Mina’s school, a bunch of the pets who were brought in by students go missing. Then, there was an explosion at the pet store in town, with all the animals in the store going missing as well. Mina Mistry starts investigating the disappearance of all the pets.
This was another entertaining Mina Mistry mystery. I found some parts gross, like the bugs that children kept as pets, but young readers would probably find that funny. The illustrations were great at telling the story. They made the story a quick read. Some of the illustrations were funny, such as the way Mina’s best friend Holly would dress her hamster up in clothes and jewelry. Her hamster, Harriet, was famous on social media for all of her glamorous clothes. I loved those illustrations because they really showed how fashionable the hamster looked in clothes.
I didn’t really like the ending of the mystery. There were multiple solutions to the various different kinds of missing pets. Since they were all investigated together, I thought the different missing pets would have been connected, but they had each disappeared to a different place.
This was a great illustrated children’s book, but the solution to the mystery was disappointing.
Thank you Sweet Cherry Publishing for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
What to read next:
The Case of the Loathsome School Lunches by Angie Lake
Other books in the series:
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