This Isn't What It Looks Like

Pseudonymous Bosch

Sep 2010 · Sold by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

About this ebook

The Secret Series continues in this dangerous and daring fourth adventure.

Cass finds herself alone and disoriented, a stranger in a dream-like, medieval world. Where is she? Who is she? With the help of a long-lost relative, she begins to uncover clues and secrets--piecing together her family's history as she fights her way back to the present world.

Meanwhile, back home, Cass is at the hospital in a deep coma. Max-Ernest knows she ate Time Travel Chocolate--and he's determined to find a cure. Can our expert hypochondriac diagnose Cass's condition before it's too late? And will he have what it takes to save the survivalist?

Ratings and reviews

I haven't read THIS ISN'T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, but I have read all the others. Pseudonymous Bosch has a dark humor that cannot be imitated, repeated, or duplicated - Simply unique in it's own way. But, you must be VERY carefull with his writing. It may not be for you. I love his writing, for example, but my mother thinks his narrating is rather annoying, always stopping in the middle of the story to tell you what he can't talk about, cursing the heavens because he just told you subconsciously. I like the mysterious theme and clever ways of thinking, although, sometimes there are some chapters that have absolutely NOTHING to do with the rest of the book...Like in his second book, entitled If You're Reading This It's Too Late, in one chapter, where he rants about how he lost that chapter. So, instead of getting a good segment of the book, you get a fictional apology. Very funny, though.

Every time my sister and I buy a Secret series book, we fight over it. Luckily she had to go out, so I pounced on it as quickly as I could and I couldn't put it down until I read the last word of the appendix. This book was slightly different than the other books, especially in the parts where Max-Ernest misses Cass. Plenty of things change in this book, and Bosch steadily integrates himself more and more into the book by hinting that he and Max-Ernest might be the same. But it still has that sense of humour entwined with a whole lot of suspense. By ending the book on a cliff-hanger Bosch has made sure that my sister and I will fight over "You have to stop this"

I have read ALL the books in this series, and I have to say, this one is AMAZING! I loved every suspensful minute of it and I couldn't put it down:-D

About the author

Pseudonymous Bosch is the infamously anonymous author of the New York Times bestselling Secret Series and the Bad Books. Despite rumors to the contrary, his books are not actually written by his pet rabbit, Quiche; the rabbit is merely his typist.