A review by catsandcamera
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

3.0

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