Nancy Drew Diaries: Secret at Mystic Lake

It's George's birthday so the three girls are going to go on a bike tour with some others around a place called Mystic Lake. This then leads into a story that has plenty of dumb action on the part of everyone.

The tour is led by a brother and sister team. George, Bess and Nancy are there along with a guy named Dagger and a woman named Zoe. The bike tour is to take three days. Henry and Caitlin are the team heading the tour.

So they travel at around 10 miles per hour. The trip is planned to take three days so that lake must be of fairly good size to take that long to get around it. Anyhow, they make a stop and leave their supplies roughly near the road while they go off elsewhere (which is quite dumb and someone in the group says so.) As can be expected, some of their supplies go missing.

Their tents are taken so they "sleep under the stars." With no protection, by the way, from any wildlife. No guns, no constant fires and no guards. (They did spot a deer earlier and seem to forget about the possibility of lyme tick disease.) Anyhow, a downpour gets started. (Didn't anyone in the group at all, much less the leaders, both to check the weather forecast before starting off?)

The woman leader disappears and the food for the group also disappears. So, later, they leave the bikes to get water from a stream. (They apparently didn't learn that YOU DON'T LEAVE YOUR SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS UNGUARDED WHILE YOU GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. So, naturally, the bikes end up with their wheels all slashed and the tour becomes a walking tour.)

They spend a second night sleeping under the stars (and, despite thefts and tire cuttings they once again do not bother posting a guard.) Nancy gets chased through the woods by someone, she finds out who's behind everything and ends up with two people chasing her rather than one. Still things work out.

The story would be decent (not great) if people had acted in a somewhat logical manner, making proper preparations (checking on the weather, for example) and realized there were potential dangers in the woods. As it is, the story is not very good.


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