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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
Really quite magical but the very last chapter brought it way down for me… I didn’t really like the inclusion or the handling of the stuff with John either. Basically a book with Woman Problems and few others.
Really such a beautiful and tragic sliver of history to choose to set story in and I am grateful to McCaughrean for that. I love you great auk I love you seabirds!!!
Really such a beautiful and tragic sliver of history to choose to set story in and I am grateful to McCaughrean for that. I love you great auk I love you seabirds!!!
The language and style is beautiful. Description is 10/10. Plot tends to drag a little (not really a rise in action), but still a good adventure.
A really unique historical novel about the true story of men and boys who were stranded on a remote Scottish island. I went down the rabbit hole after I finished this novel to learn more about Hirta and St. Kilda. The islands look terrifying gorgeous.
emotional
tense
medium-paced
I've been to St Kilda recently and had heard about the true story this book is based on, so I was really excited to read this. I even bought it over there, in the souvenir shop (the ranger hadn't even read it yet)! Unfortunately the narrative style is very distant, and the characters never really got to me despite all the hardships they endure. I wanted to feel what they felt, despair with them, but I just couldn't. The stac remained populated by cardboard people throughout the book. Finished it though, and near the end it got better. So... Two stars. It was ok, but not what I would have wanted from this incredible story!
This one was quite disappointing unfortunately. It was a slog to get through, which is not normally a problem I have with middle grade books.
The story could have been interesting - a bunch of young boys getting abandoned on a rocky island with no idea if or when anyone will come back for them - but the writing style was boring. It felt like it took an extremely long time to get into the story, the first half just felt like the same scenes being repeated over and over.
This is based on a true event that happened in the 1700's, and to be honest, I found the few paragraphs at the end of the book about the real event to be much more interesting than the story the author decided to tell
The story could have been interesting - a bunch of young boys getting abandoned on a rocky island with no idea if or when anyone will come back for them - but the writing style was boring. It felt like it took an extremely long time to get into the story, the first half just felt like the same scenes being repeated over and over.
This is based on a true event that happened in the 1700's, and to be honest, I found the few paragraphs at the end of the book about the real event to be much more interesting than the story the author decided to tell
lowkey, nothing was happening and there were so many characters that i literally didn't know who was who...
1727 in the furthest part away in the British Isles. A birding party is stranded. The boys and the three men with them live through desolation and destitution in a story which reveals stories and truths and dreams and a way of life long forgotten.
Good read
This book was pretty good. It seemed slow going at first and then became really interesting. I like how its based in a true story.
This book was pretty good. It seemed slow going at first and then became really interesting. I like how its based in a true story.