Review: Great characters, great story....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
Delilah Dusticle is delightful. The first book in the Dustbuster series (click here for my review) dealt with Delilah’s recovery from heartbreak and finding happiness and peace within her special skills. This second novel is Delilah Dusticle’s Transylvanian Adventure is light, fun, sweet and thoroughly entertaining. Delilah is the Pippi Longstocking for the modern child sharing the same innocent and sweet nature with the iconic character with a solid sense of good fun and good friends.Gavin Childs is to be commended for the illustrations. They were well drawn, very suited to the story and quite humorous.My daughter, Alex, is now 12-years-old and the upper end of this market. When I gave her the novel to read she thought it very wise of York to make Dracula a friendly character as leaving out the horror element broadens the market. Alex likes that the story is set in the past and finds Delilah fun and sweet. I watched as she read curled up on the couch with a huge smile on her face and the occasional giggle.  Delilah Dusticle’s Transylvanian Adventure is truly a fun and feel good piece perfect for the middle grade child and the young at heart.