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A review by herbalmoon
The Key to the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
3.0
Just started, so I'm not quite sure what to think yet. A few mistakes I've noticed:
Omri says: Ruby Lou was a saloon-bar hostess.
I say: Not only is "saloon-bar" redundant, there was no such thing as a "hostess". She sounded like a woman-about-town and possibly even a minx. (Or "maneater", to use a little bit more of a modern term.)
Omri says: It was a hurricane that attacked London.
I say: How did a storm that was a tornado in book three suddenly become a hurricane in book five? And even if they hit the desert parts of Texas, they'd probably be a tropical storm or depression by then.
I hope this one ends up being as good as the last one or the ghostwriter that Lynne clearly hired will have been a complete failure.
==Two Days Later==
Mainly a failure. This book didn't have nearly the excitement of any of the others.
One last "hmm": Lionel refers to the shamen/holy people of the Iroquois as sachem.
But other nations (their Algonquin enemies, especially) call their chiefs by that title. In fact, Little Bear's comment that he's a "pine tree chief" makes me think that he was a sagamore and whoever Old Mother picked would be sachem.
But I don't know enough about the Iroquois to be certain about whether Lionel's appellation is correct.
Omri says: Ruby Lou was a saloon-bar hostess.
I say: Not only is "saloon-bar" redundant, there was no such thing as a "hostess". She sounded like a woman-about-town and possibly even a minx. (Or "maneater", to use a little bit more of a modern term.)
Omri says: It was a hurricane that attacked London.
I say: How did a storm that was a tornado in book three suddenly become a hurricane in book five? And even if they hit the desert parts of Texas, they'd probably be a tropical storm or depression by then.
I hope this one ends up being as good as the last one or the ghostwriter that Lynne clearly hired will have been a complete failure.
==Two Days Later==
Mainly a failure. This book didn't have nearly the excitement of any of the others.
One last "hmm": Lionel refers to the shamen/holy people of the Iroquois as sachem.
But other nations (their Algonquin enemies, especially) call their chiefs by that title. In fact, Little Bear's comment that he's a "pine tree chief" makes me think that he was a sagamore and whoever Old Mother picked would be sachem.
But I don't know enough about the Iroquois to be certain about whether Lionel's appellation is correct.