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This is the fifth book in the Spellman series. I have the first four in paperback and was pleasantly surprised to find Lisa Lutz has continued with the series. I guess you could read this as a separate book but I would recommend you start from the first book called the Spellman Files. That being said I enjoyed this one and if anything, the writing has improved. The Spellmans are a dysfunctional family of private eyes who spend a lot of their time investigating each other and solving unusual cases. The story is written from the point of Issy Spellman, who is a very likeable person reminding me of friends or even of myself in my misspent youth. Miss Lutz is one of a small group of writers whose work actually makes me laugh out loud while I am reading. Moving back and forth between the current page and the footnotes at the end of the chapter is slow on my ancient Kindle but well worth it the effort. My first five star book!


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Trail of the Spellmans Document #5 Lisa Lutz 9781451608120 Books Reviews

After first reading "The Spellman Files" a few months ago, the longest space in time I've gone without picking up a Spellman book was the 2 weeks I had to wait for one to ship. Clearly, I thoroughly enjoyed them. While the first one was good, it was just a warm up for the last three, where Lutz really hit her stride. However, this one, while not necessarily a let down, failed to thrill me the way the previous ones did. It's a more sincere book, with less of the easy-going antics of the first four (not to say there aren't any). And where for many comedic writers, who may fail to transition from humor to the dramatic, Lutz's characterization through the series still kept me very attached to the characters (although this one may be the most Izzy-centric of them all), and had me racing through to the end. But, when I finished, it wasn't as airily as I would have preferred. It seems as if the last 4 books have been the blissfully ignorant college years and Lutz has graduated into a heavier reality.
I LOVE this series. I finished book 3 and immediately turned back to page 1 to read it again, because it was such a well-written book.. For each of the first 4 books, once I started them I couldn't put them down again.

This book...meh.

I like the fact that the books start in the middle and gradually unravel everything, but in this book that device felt extremely forced. It failed to hook me early on; I kept putting it down and forgetting to come back.

I thought the way the backstory was handled was not useful. I was confused at some of it, and I've read the four previous books within the last few months.

Although she hit us over the head with the reasons why some of the characters changed, I didn't find it very believable. David was incredibly annoying. Rae's final decision seemed very out of character. Albert Spellman seemed more of a caricature.

I thought the book was quite heavy-handed in putting out the message that people change and want different things...except for Izzy. That doesn't seem fair, since Isabelle has changed so much through the course of the series.
Why did Isabel and Henry have to break up??? That aside, I love every last Spellman! Isabel is a riot and will do anything- anything! - to get answers to her questions. Rae is a mess and I love her, she's a younger Isabel who has the potential to carry the Spellmans well into their retirement years. Was this a funny, snappy mystery? No doubt about it. It was marred by the breakup but I loved Henry's mom, Gertrude! She's the complete opposite of her son. And Olivia Spellman, Izzie's mother, is the best! Who takes a Russian Language class? David's secret about Rae is hilarious! Each of the side characters have their own brand of funny. I felt sorry for the math professor, not sorry for Grandmother Spellman (love her!), and where did the ex-con come from? Lisa Lutz, you've created a family I hope stays around for a long, long time. Great book, great family and please keep them coming! PS Give Izzie back to Henry. Please!
I have thoroughly enjoyed every Spellman novel and with each one I think Lutz has outdone herself. However, just when I think the next one won't be as good as the previous books, Lutz proves me wrong. I love that, in the story line, a few years have passed since the last Spellman book; the author does a fantastic job of weaving in the necessary events of those two years without getting bogged down in unnecessary details. The characters have changed, grown, and (in most cases) matured since the end of the previous book, and I thoroughly enjoyed "getting to know them" again. I especially enjoyed how Izzy and Rae have grown and changed, and the introduction of Grandma Spellman is a treat as well. The only character I enjoyed less this time around is David; in fact, I wanted to shake him and tell him to grow up and act like a man. That, though, is a very minor issue for me. Great book -- I can't wait to see what the Spellmans are up to next time!
While I'll try to keep things as vague as possible, beware that this review is going to be rather spoiler-ish in terms of the major themes of this latest Spellman episode. I loved all of the books that came before this, reading all of them in a span of a week once I'd devoured the first, but I felt this one was a pretty big departure from the quirky humor underlaid with bits of seriousness that I liked in the other books. A lot of sad changes are impending in Izzy's life, and being the screw-up that she is, she's perhaps less prepared than a more responsible adult would be, which I think makes things even more sad when you see how these events start forcing our once emotionally evasive at all costs heroine to finally grow up. This is the only Spellman book that made me cry, and I couldn't shake the sense that Lisa Lutz had been through some heavy emotional turmoil of her own around the time she was writing this. While too melancholy for me, the book was still a good read, and I'm just hoping that the next will be more of a return to form.
This is the fifth book in the Spellman series. I have the first four in paperback and was pleasantly surprised to find Lisa Lutz has continued with the series. I guess you could read this as a separate book but I would recommend you start from the first book called the Spellman Files. That being said I enjoyed this one and if anything, the writing has improved. The Spellmans are a dysfunctional family of private eyes who spend a lot of their time investigating each other and solving unusual cases. The story is written from the point of Issy Spellman, who is a very likeable person reminding me of friends or even of myself in my misspent youth. Miss Lutz is one of a small group of writers whose work actually makes me laugh out loud while I am reading. Moving back and forth between the current page and the footnotes at the end of the chapter is slow on my ancient but well worth it the effort. My first five star book!