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With 2 trilogies out now for the Undercover Brothers series, I was curious as to which one people prefer?

This poll will be open for 30 days, and you can only vote for 1 trilogy.

Neither are really good, but i picked Murder House.

Haven't read Double Danger, yet, although I don't think it can be worse then Murder House. That was the worst "trilogy" I've ever read.

Murder House was better.

Double Danger

I just finished Double Deception, and I would have to say that the Double Danger trilogy was the better of the two since I found that I really enjoyed Double Deception.

Double Danger trilogy (even though I haven't read the third one yet).

I really, really like Double Trouble.

Quote from: tomswift2002 on March 23, 2009, 12:40:20 PM
I just finished Double Deception, and I would have to say that the Double Danger trilogy was the better of the two since I found that I really enjoyed Double Deception.

Maybe I should actually read it!

I pick Double Danger.

Quote from: SDLagent on March 23, 2009, 03:20:04 PM
Maybe I should actually read it!

Just read Double Deception.  Don't bother with the other two Double books.

Quote from: SDLagent on March 23, 2009, 03:20:04 PM
Maybe I should actually read it!

I completely agree. You should.

Murder House!  :D

Double Down (the first book) was good! I could actually see everything happening: the characters made sense, and so did the events.

What?s wrong with it for the rest of you?

Anyways, all the other TV-related books in the UBs are awful because they?re so?I don?t want to say unrealistic, but I can't think of a word.

Opps missed the vote.
Doubles most definantly. It was actually almost a "Trilogy."

double danger but i think galaxy x will be better than both of them. there should be a lot of sabotage in the series.

...because we haven't had enough sabotage already!

Yyyyyyyiiipppppppppeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! :D  :-*

What do you think about the Killer Mystery trilogy?

I can?t believe these are almost tied :-\

Don't you think that if the Killer Mystery Tril. is going to be the kill date for the series that it will be a good one?

At first it sounded good. Like an assassin or somsething, but now it sounds like they are playing the wheel of killers agin.

Theres a killer at...
*S&S spins giant game show wheel*
a reality show!

Theres a killer at...
*S&S spins wheel*
a Movie Set!

Theres a killer at...
*S&S spins wheel*
a private school!

Nice, Robin.

Quote from: HB@1718 on July 05, 2009, 03:50:53 PM
Don't you think that if the Killer Mystery Tril. is going to be the kill date for the series that it will be a good one?

I think so, since the series is really not moving off of bookstore shelves.

Quote from: 003Robin457 on July 05, 2009, 05:42:57 PM
At first it sounded good. Like an assassin or somsething, but now it sounds like they are playing the wheel of killers agin.

Theres a killer at...
*S&S spins giant game show wheel*
a reality show!

Theres a killer at...
*S&S spins wheel*
a Movie Set!

Theres a killer at...
*S&S spins wheel*
a private school!

You forgot the killer at a theme park.

I have to say that my favorite one is the Double Danger trilogy. It was still pretty bad, but it did have a little more suspense and action than the Murder House trilogy.... But I haven't read Galaxy X
yet and it might be better.

My favorite is the DOUBLE DANGER trilogy.

Quote from: Frank rules on July 24, 2009, 12:22:07 PM
I have to say that my favorite one is the Double Danger trilogy. It was still pretty bad, but it did have a little more suspense and action than the Murder House trilogy.... But I haven't read Galaxy X
yet and it might be better.

You thought it had more action? There was like zero action, it was waaaayyy too obvious and awful!!!! Murder House was better than the Double Danger Trilogy.

I?m going to have to disagree with you there :(

I could get into it, but it?s probably better that we don?t fight ;)

But I will say this: I mostly just like the first book (Double Down).

Well, it wasn't awful, but it was waaayy too obvious.

Yeah, every time they said the answer to the situation, they always thought it was too crazy to be true. But it was!

Quote from: Stardust on August 04, 2009, 06:35:49 PM
You thought it had more action? There was like zero action, it was waaaayyy too obvious and awful!!!! Murder House was better than the Double Danger Trilogy.

I was thinking.
Murder House is pretty good.
Galaxy X is even better!

Quote from: ken10 on August 15, 2009, 12:02:13 PM
Murder House is pretty good.

Murder House was extremely weak and pointless.  I felt like I was reading the exact same book 3 times in a row.

Quote from: ken10 on August 15, 2009, 12:02:13 PM
I was thinking.
Murder House is pretty good.
Galaxy X is even better!

Galaxy X is OK....

All of the current trilogies were rather stupid and unimaginative. The one that I would say had the most potential to be a good mystery was the Double Danger trilogy. The first book was awesome. The second was pretty good. The third was a weak link connecting all three back to the first one. I think that the trilogy could have been sooo much better if the story weren't stretched so thin. Perhaps it could have been made into a real supermystery (with more than 175 pages). I also think that perhaps a villain could have been a villain original to the third part of the mystery and that maybe the Joe/Emily thing could have been played up a bit more (the Joe of Casefiles and ND/HB supermysteries was a super-flirt that always got any girl that he looked at and wasn't nailed to the floor). Murder House was (it goes without saying) a one-story wonder. As in, it would have been great as a single-story mystery ending with the first part of the "trilogy." The first story had originality and it progressively went downhill from there. Galaxy X was actually the one trilogy to date that is truly readable without making any major changes. If I had to rate them, I would say:
1. Double Danger
2. Galaxy X
3. Murder House
(the first and the second are really interchangeable)

Quote from: Hardy Man on October 06, 2009, 09:25:38 PM
All of the current trilogies were rather stupid and unimaginative. The one that I would say had the most potential to be a good mystery was the Double Danger trilogy. The first book was awesome. The second was pretty good. The third was a weak link connecting all three back to the first one. I think that the trilogy could have been sooo much better if the story weren't stretched so thin. Perhaps it could have been made into a real supermystery (with more than 175 pages). I also think that perhaps a villain could have been a villain original to the third part of the mystery and that maybe the Joe/Emily thing could have been played up a bit more (the Joe of Casefiles and ND/HB supermysteries was a super-flirt that always got any girl that he looked at and wasn't nailed to the floor). Murder House was (it goes without saying) a one-story wonder. As in, it would have been great as a single-story mystery ending with the first part of the "trilogy." The first story had originality and it progressively went downhill from there. Galaxy X was actually the one trilogy to date that is truly readable without making any major changes. If I had to rate them, I would say:
1. Double Danger
2. Galaxy X
3. Murder House
(the first and the second are really interchangeable)

Finally, someone who sees it the same way I do!!

But I've only read the first book in the Galaxy X trilogy so far.

I recommend reading the first and second one, but skipping to the end to see who the villain is on the third. Why? Because the first and second are really good, but the third is just a re-write of them both (with a little obvious new spin at the end to produce a villain).

Quote from: Hardy Man on October 09, 2009, 06:48:00 PM
I recommend reading the first and second one, but skipping to the end to see who the villain is on the third. Why? Because the first and second are really good, but the third is just a re-write of them both (with a little obvious new spin at the end to produce a villain).

I can't bring myself to read the second book of Galaxy X :-\ (I renewed it and it was just sitting in my room for like 4 weeks).

I'll probably attempt it later. I'm just not in the right headspace, or losing the little interest I had...