![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to its over-the-top characters and quirky flights of fancy, this book often reads like a Roald Dahl novel: (Or, in simple language, a strong feeling that something nasty was about to happen. No, dear Reader, it was a premonition of doom. had a terrible sensation in the pit of her stomach that was, for once, not tragic flatulence. The League of Beastly Dreadfuls is good for a chuckle and exhibits a sense of humor suitable for its intended audience: Before long, Anastasia discovers a mystery that needs solving and begins to suspect her aunties are up to something sinister. Agony's Asylum for the Criminally Insane. When Anastasia's parents are killed in a freak vacuum-cleaner accident, she's carted away by two aunties she never knew she had to a spooky Victorian house, once known as St. ![]()
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