A Game Most Foul, Alison Gervais
A Game Most Foul, Alison Gervais
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A Game Most Foul

Author: Alison Gervais

Narrator: Khristine Hvam

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blink

Published: 06/18/2024


Synopsis

2025 Children’s Book Council Librarian Favorites Winner (9th – 12th Grade)
2025 Children’s Book Council Teacher Favorites Winner (9th – 12th Grade)From award-winning YA author Alison Gervais comes a contemporary mystery about a teen writer determined to discover what happened to a missing classmate, who finds herself caught up with a pair of very familiar detectives named Watson and Holmes. All her awakening powers of observation will be put to the test as she finds that the thing she thought was holding her back just might be her greatest strength.Attending the prestigious Ashford College’s writing seminar is a dream come true for Jules Montgomery, but the summer isn’t unfolding as she hoped. Navigating London with her recent hearing loss is difficult, and hiding it from her classmates is a challenge. Even worse, she can’t seem to shake a case of writer’s block. When a fellow student goes missing, neither the police nor their teacher, Professor Watson, seem that concerned. Jules and her new friends Percy and Suruthi are determined to get to the bottom of the case and they’re not alone: the strange man who frequents Jules’ aunt’s antique shop is eager to help—and his name is none other than Sherlock Holmes.Now there are two mysteries to solve. What happened to their missing classmate? And how can it be that Watson and Holmes—two fictional characters from the Victorian era—are alive and well in the 21st century? The only way to find answers might lie in a quote from one of Watson’s old stories: “You see, but you do not observe.” Jules may not be able to hear all that well, but without her hearing aids, she can certainly see more than the average person. And nothing about this is case is average.A Game Most Foul:Features a Hard of Hearing protagonist written by a writer Hard of Hearing author drawing from personal experiences.Is by Alison Gervais, author of The Silence Between Us, winner of the Schneider Family Award, Best Teen Honor Book 2020.Will appeal to both casual and serious fans of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries.Is a romance with a sweet love story.

About Alison Gervais

Alison Gervais is the author of In 27 Days and The Silence Between Us, for which she received the 2020 Schneider Family Honor Book Award, and A Game Most Foul. She graduated with a degree in English from Colorado State University – Pueblo and now works at a nonprofit organization that provides services to people with disabilities. Currently Alison lives in Colorado with her husband and their two daughters. When she has the time, she likes to write.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie all_books_great_and_small on September 03, 2024

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers. ***AUDIO BOOK VERSION*** A Game Most Foul is a fun YA mystery book with two characters in modern day times called Holmes and Watson slam dunk in the middle of it. We follow Jules,......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on June 18, 2024

This was such a fun, twisty YA murder mystery that features a hard of hearing American teen girl in London for a summer writing semester where she makes new friends, falls in love and helps solve a decades old Sherlock Holmes mystery (plus the case of her missing fellow student). With supernatural e......more

Goodreads review by Steff on June 21, 2024

For any book that is taking a beloved IP and reworking it into something new, there are always bound to be a number of reasonably disappointed readers. It is, as they say, a hazard of doing business. All that said, there are often many who do it incredibly well, thus mitigating the quantity of those......more

Goodreads review by ✧ Beanie on June 28, 2024

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for this audiobook edition of A Game Most Foul. Can I say this was amazing? No. But did I enjoy it way more than I expected? Yes. There was something just... really nice about this book? It's probably lower-end Young Adult, but it was just *nice* reading a book li......more

Goodreads review by Kate on November 27, 2024

As a writer, Sherlock Holmes nerd, and Alison Gervais fan, this was one of my most anticipated reads this year, and it didn't disappoint! šŸ™ŒšŸ™Œ The meandering style took some getting used to at first, but I'm starting to think this was an intentional homage. Also, the plot came together at the end, like......more