The Silver Arrow

The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

***3.0***
A Mediocre Middle Grade book.
Kate, 11 years old gets an eccentric gift from her mysterious rich uncle Herbert. A train, that too a magical one in her backyard. Kate with her younger brother Tom are irresistible and jump on the train which gives way to a bizarre adventure.

There are talking animals and an introduction to sad and alarming facts like animal endanger and extinction, deforestation,
global warming etc. It was a very good and interesting way to present these facts to the children.

Great book for Middle Grade kids.

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A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1) by Naomi Novik

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

****1.0****
I have given the book full attention and at 60% I am putting this book to DNF .
This one is not for me even though I like Naomi Novik’s other books so far. It feels like written in a hurry , crammed with a lot of information in few pages and a totally boring narration though the original/core plot is promising.

Too superficial and runny narration.

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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

****5.0****

Bubonic plague in 1596, takes away the only son named “Hamnet” of a famous play writer ( unnamed) and his wife Agnes.The story revolves around Hamnet where there is little where actually he appears in the story. Fours years later the father creates a play named after his son in which the father dies and the son lives to avenge him.

“She is not yet where she needs to be, in the forest, alone, with the trees over her head. She is not alone.”

Maggie O’Farrell has shown that she can whisk away a story from any small incident or in the mundanity of life. The whole story is much about the people around Hamnet, the normal daily life, too domestic but yet it tells a lot about humanity. Novel is inspired by William Shakespeare’s 11-year-old son Hamnet who died in 1956.

“She hates the way the people part to let them past and then, behind them, regroup, erasing their passage, as if it were nothing, as if it never were.”

Amazingly written , this story slowly grows on you.

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