Thursday 22 March 2012

Novel Review

The novel I read was called "The Valley of Adventure" by Enid Blyton. It is an adventure book (as the title suggests).  The book doesn't say which time period it was written in. But, I guess it was either in the late 40s to the 50s. The entire series follows four adventurous tweens and teens. As where ever they go, they seem to have a massive adventure. Even when in one of the latter books of the series they promise their Mother that they'd wouldn't go for any more adventures.

This book is the four: Jack, Dinah, Philip and Lucy-Ann, going to visit their uncle Bill in Scotland. Uncle Bill wants to fly them to his bungalow in his new plane. But there is a mix up up at the aerodrome. Because Bill was a policeman, he'd been called to help catch a couple of crooks who robed a museum. There was a small shot-out. The four were frightened and got on to the wrong plane. It just so happened that the plane they got on to was that of the crooks! So they realised that pretty quickly. Over hearing the pilots, they crammed them selves into some crates at the back of the plane. Because the pilots were going to drop their crates into a valley. The survived the fall because the crates had parachutes. That's how they ended up having an adventure in a valley.

I'd rate this book 7/10 because the over all story line was good. The description of the environment was some-what realistic. The only down side to all of this is because of the language they use. Its not bad. But, is what I call "proper English." And I'm not use to it. Nor are a lot people. Most would be quite irritated. There were also some funny parts to it. Mainly when Philip tries to scare his sister Dinah with all sorts of bugs:)

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