A review by missbookiverse
Treasure Island by Paul Wenzel, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lisa Norby, Fernando Fernández

2.0

What a bore! I don't know why this book is described as thrilling and adventurous. I found it hard to get past the language. Sometimes because of the dated style, sometimes because of unknown vocabulary. But apart from that I expected a hunt for treasure – turns out this hunt makes up about 2 out of 34 chapters near the end. The rest is a "gang war" between 2 groups of people of which most lacked distinct (or interesting) characterization. I really wanted to like it but I had too much trouble getting through it in the first place. I guess it paved the way for many latter pirate stories and adventure novels but I'd rather stick to some more exciting, modern adaptions then.