"Nancy was attracted to both girls and responded to their friendly welcome."

[crantz]

"They've left me here to—to starve!" she thought frantically.


--Shit gets real in Nancy Drew: The Secret Of The Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

I'm done! Nancy saved the day after getting into some pretty dangerous circumstances!

Quick list of things I like:

1. The police pretty much do whatever Nancy wants.


2. The way Nancy's dad encourages her to solve crime, unlike the movie.


3. Staggering coincidences aside, near the end I was getting excited whenever Nancy succeeded in finding another clue. She's a bit of a Mary Sue, but she's a Mary Sue I love dearly.


4. The time period and that Nancy did any damn thing she pleased.

Things I didn't like aren't actually a very big list.

There was a scary moment! That was also really depressing! In it, Nancy goes to visit one of the people what are her leads, who is an old lady! But the old lady fell and hurt herself and she can't walk and no one comes to see her or knows she's injured and she has NO FOOD because she has no money and she needs the money in the will in the book so she can hire a nurse and it's worse because I know people are in that situation right now, even though it's decades and decades later.

That was scary.

(She was okay in the end. Also, Nancy fed her and found her help)

The villains were also pretty close to twirling their mustaches, despite being teenage girls, in a lot of this.

ANYWAY. That was my reread of the first Nancy Drew book. Mine's actually a revised version, so if I ever get my hands on an original, I may have to read that to see how I feel about that.