Review: Grandpa, put on your glasses and read a chapter aloud every night!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
StoryIs the story believable? Yes for the audience, not quite for the adults. It doesn't matter. A lot of football, a little detection and a dog is all we need to have a good time.Is it interesting? Yes it is well plotted.CharactersAll the characters are well defined without giving too much details or psychology. They are all slightly goofy, even the dog. It produces cartoon images in your mind. I enjoyed it. It is pretty sweet..FormI like very much the choice of style that the author made. I hate books that are confined to 200 words vocabulary because they are "written for kids." It is not overly complicated, just ordinary language. If there is a word that a kid doesn't understand, he/she can look it up or usually understand the word in context: it is how we learn our own language. The author sometimes tries to get you in the action by using the present tense instead of the past. All writers want to do that at one point, it doesn't really work.This is a good safe and funny family reading.