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A review by bristoni74
Heidi Grows Up by Charles Tritten
2.0
2.5 stars. I didn't realise this sequel wasn't written by the original author until I picked it out my childhood bookshelf but I still felt Charles Tritten wrote in a similar style to the original novel.
This novel covered a large time span which I felt didn’t always work – at the beginning of the novel Heidi is 14 and goes to a boarding school and returns to the Alps for the holidays with a school friend but suddenly without warning she graduates, teaches in the village school and then marries Peter (with no transition from friendship to romance)!. I think this sequel would have worked better if it had just stayed with her during her boarding school years.
Again, there is religious moralising and very simplistic ways for solving complex situations, but I felt I enjoyed this sequel more than the original Heidi.
This novel covered a large time span which I felt didn’t always work – at the beginning of the novel Heidi is 14 and goes to a boarding school and returns to the Alps for the holidays with a school friend but suddenly without warning she graduates, teaches in the village school and then marries Peter (with no transition from friendship to romance)!. I think this sequel would have worked better if it had just stayed with her during her boarding school years.
Again, there is religious moralising and very simplistic ways for solving complex situations, but I felt I enjoyed this sequel more than the original Heidi.