That brings me to the biggest side plot of the novel, the competition between Ben's parents. No one wants Christmas to roll around with a missing Christmas star! Well, no one but Mr. I thought it was a really fun idea to have this installment revolving around the holidays, because it added a bit of an edge to the mystery when everything went wrong. I'm not here to talk about the Swindle series as a whole, though.

I will say that in a perfect world I would prefer to see a tad more character development from book to book (the characters all seem pretty static at this point), but since I love the team members the way they are it's not too hard a pill to swallow that they don't change/mature over time. That hasn't been happening at all, though. Considering that Jingle is the eighth book of the series, you'd think that the novels would be getting pretty watered down by now. I've read them all, though, mostly in order (besides accidentally reading the second book first), and I've heartily enjoyed every single one. They've had a little trouble keeping track of the Swindle books, though, just because there are so many of them - and the titles/covers sort of blend together after a while. I check the books out from the library), but my siblings will always choose to read the latest Gordon Korman when given the chance. You see, my family loves Gordon Korman's books. First, everyone said something along the lines of 'wait, for real? There's another one? This series goes on forever!' And then, invariably, they asked if they could borrow it when I'm done. When I told my family I had the latest book in Gordon Korman's Swindle series, the response was two-fold.

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