Review: Funny and entertaining
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2012
I immediately got to grips wth the main character of this book, the young but fairly mature 'farm-girl' out at a new boarding school because she lost mum and dad to a car crash. i had a few ideas of what to expect as I knew this was based on a kind of wirzard of Oz style book but it was thankfully still pretty original and it wasn't until all the characters nicknames were listed tother that I realised who everyone was and how it all fitted together.I also really liked the sense of humour of the main character and found myself chuckling out loud at a few things she said and thought.There were just a few things that robbed the book of a 5 star from me (it's not easy to get 5 stars from me) and those were two things. Mostly the last 'battle' It just all felt a little too easy. I won't spoil it all but I think it should have been harder for Gail to do what she did and win at the end.The other slight niggle, though very minor was the editing, there were quite a few words strung together and missing words etc. Sometimes I'd have to read a sentence again to figure out what the author was trying to say, although on finishing the author did say that the book had gone through another proof read. My advice would be to anyone reading this and worried the errors would annoye them is to get the sample and check. If there aren't any you notice in the sample you will probably be fine with the book. This alone wasn't frequent enough to have me knock down a star on it's own either.