I read the first Mysterious Benedict Society book ages ago and then never read any of the others. When Sassymonkey mentioned book 4, The Mysterious Education of Nicholas Benedict, I decided to catch up and reserved the rest at the library and then I read them all straight through.
The Perilous Journey and The Prisoner’s Dilemma were much like the first book – the four children work together to defeat Mr Curtain and his (mostly) evil henchmen. The Ten Men are creepy. Very creepy. And the kids are very smart. Mr Benedict still has necrophilia.
The Mysterious Education of Nicholas Benedict is a prequel – and gives us a lot of missing info about how Mr Benedict came to be Mr Benedict. This one’s a little different than the other three books, obviously, but there are still good kids (though not necessarily gifted kids) and the most of adults in the story are not so much bad – they’re just flawed and need someone to help nudge them along the proper path, thankfully there’s Nicholas to sort them out.
Fun series. I’m glad I caught up this way.