Review: Great Fantasy Novella for the Young(or Young@Heart)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2012
Hike Up Devil's Mountain by Penny Estelle, is a novella that is  sure to capture the imagination of any young boy or girl who has a Grade 4,5,6 reading ability.  It has everything they love in a Fantasy novel: plenty of magical & strange occurrences as our heroes hike up Devil's Mountain to find a solution to a bully's very unusual predicament. The author hooks readers from the beginning and keeps them on that hook until the final twist in the story is revealed.  Parents will like the fact that the book discusses parental disobedience and bullying.My 8  year grandson, who is a prolific reader, chose this chapter book for his bedtime story.  He thought the book was "Super Good" except for some parts of the hike that dragged on too much. He wanted me to skip through some of the descriptive narrative as he felt it "just confused the story". We had to read certain sections more than once to get a clear idea of what was happening.  This wouldn't be a problem for an adult, however, this novel is geared to early readers. This may be a product of his younger age but he read the Potter books so I will accept his comment at face value.Overall Hike Up Devil's Mountain  is a very fun read.  The book also receives a grade of 96% for the excellent spellchecking and grammatical structure of it's sentences & paragraphs.I received a complimentary copy of this book from BookRooster in exchange for an honest review. I am not related nor friends with this author.  I know that false reviews are a problem, and therefore I acknowledge that the opinions expressed in the review are fully mine except where specifically identified as that of another person.