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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
This took a while to read to Tiny as she is currently obsessed with Harry Potter so it was second choice for quite a while and we had a long hiatus!
It's a good story - we both enjoyed it - and I think plays the cultural sensitivity of the subject matter pretty well (or, at least, safely) for reading to a 5 year old.
As it's set in the Victorian era, the characters' attitudes to cultural and ethnic diversity would inevitably be more than a little old-fashioned. Webb hasn't shied away from that and nor has she spent too much time explaining it. Occasionally I wished it was made a bit clearer that certain behaviours were not kind, but it was a fine line to tread and as I was reading it to Tiny I could ask her what she thought about some things or explain some extra context about the time as we went along.
It's a good story - we both enjoyed it - and I think plays the cultural sensitivity of the subject matter pretty well (or, at least, safely) for reading to a 5 year old.
As it's set in the Victorian era, the characters' attitudes to cultural and ethnic diversity would inevitably be more than a little old-fashioned. Webb hasn't shied away from that and nor has she spent too much time explaining it. Occasionally I wished it was made a bit clearer that certain behaviours were not kind, but it was a fine line to tread and as I was reading it to Tiny I could ask her what she thought about some things or explain some extra context about the time as we went along.
"everything was strange, and new, and she didn't like it one bit." ch. 5
that pretty much summed up this fourth installment of Maisie Hitchins mysteries, dlm seri keempat ini gak seperti biasanya dimana Maisie menyelesaikan kasus dgn mengamati pentunjuk2 di sekelilingnya, kali ini lebiih drawn out pacenya dan kurang ada usaha penyelidikan krn Maisie jg di handicapped secara fisik yg buat dia gak tahu apa2 saat kejadian pencurian.
Disini Maisie jg nunjukkin sisi kekanak kanakannya (walaupun emg msh kecil, 9 thn) dia lebih mudah terpancing emosinya drpd seri sebelum2nya, awalnya agak terganggu tp lama kelamaan nerima perubahan ini, mungkin ini yg disebut character development, bisa buat pencerahan jg gimana Maisie akan ditulis di seri2 berikutnya.
Seri ini naro perhatian lebih utama ke hubungan antar tokoh, maisie dgn neneknya, maisie dgn george, prof. tobin dgn, dan nantinya maisie dengan , it definitely sets the reader anticipation for the next stories, I hope the author would blend this newly found intimacy with the mysterious atmosphere that had existed since vol. 1 nicely in a more balanced kinda way.
that pretty much summed up this fourth installment of Maisie Hitchins mysteries, dlm seri keempat ini gak seperti biasanya dimana Maisie menyelesaikan kasus dgn mengamati pentunjuk2 di sekelilingnya, kali ini lebiih drawn out pacenya dan kurang ada usaha penyelidikan krn Maisie jg di handicapped secara fisik yg buat dia gak tahu apa2 saat kejadian pencurian.
Disini Maisie jg nunjukkin sisi kekanak kanakannya (walaupun emg msh kecil, 9 thn) dia lebih mudah terpancing emosinya drpd seri sebelum2nya, awalnya agak terganggu tp lama kelamaan nerima perubahan ini, mungkin ini yg disebut character development, bisa buat pencerahan jg gimana Maisie akan ditulis di seri2 berikutnya.
Seri ini naro perhatian lebih utama ke hubungan antar tokoh, maisie dgn neneknya, maisie dgn george, prof. tobin dgn
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mystery set in victorian london....good red herrings with clues to real thief planted deftly in the story