The Black Circle

I have to say that this is the best 39 Clues book thus far, but it still only gets three stars. I liked the way Patrick Carman made our protagonists team up with a previously hated group of antagonists. It added a sense of dread (will they be double-crossed?) and a sense of surprise (I had no idea I would actually like those characters). I must say that I wondered several times if Carman stayed true to the character traits that the others before him had painted for this particular crew because they seemed too soft from how they had been portrayed before.