Category: Middle-grade
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌑 4/5 stars
Recommended for: 9-13
Lost Children of the Far Islands is a 2014 book about a pair of twins, Gustavia and Leomaris (Shortened to Gus and Leo for most of the book, and their five-year-old sister, Ila. When their mother falls deathly ill, they’re whisked away to a small, isolated island by their Selkie grandmother.
First off, the characters. Gus and Leo were quite interesting MCs. They had all their little quirks and it made them pop off the page! Ila started off well too, but I liked her better before she started talking.
Also, how did she know to say “Moirai”? Why did she turn into a fox instead of a seal? Is she psychic or smth? I wouldn’t mind Ila getting a book all to herself!
The plot was quite fast and dramatic in the beginning of the book, it slowed down quite a bit in the middle, and sped up again in the last third. I would’ve preferred a more consistent pace, but it didn’t put me off enough to drop the book.
I also would’ve preferred that the Bedell be either straight-up evil, because what’s in the book makes it really hard for me to like him as a good guy, or as a villain.
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