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![]() But, yes, it’s a rollicking adventure story, with pirates, and I will happily give this to young readers looking for adventure tales. Personally, I didn’t like how many different people were downright mean to Egg. Trying to escape leads him on a wild series of adventures involving pirates, stowing away, and finding help in very strange places. Unfortunately, Millicent’s father apparently wants Egg dead. On Sunrise Island, Egg meets the most powerful man on the island and his daughter, Millicent, who has a mind of her own, and whom Egg immediately falls for. But overall, it won me over, because Egg has a good heart. Those were things I didn’t like about the book. ![]() And quite a lot of people die, rather callously. ![]() But then his father mysteriously takes the whole family to Sunrise Island - a beautiful island where rich people live, and Egg’s adventures begin.Įgbert’s older brother and sister and their tutor are all horribly mean to him, as a matter of course. Their field hands are mainly retired pirates, many of whom don’t actually have two hands. He lives on a fruit plantation with his father, older brother, and older sister. It’s called that because the weather is awful. ![]() I’d be sorely tempted to classify it as “Historical,” except it’s a totally imaginary history of totally imaginary places.Įgbert is growing up on Deadweather Island. This book is only fantasy in that it takes place in an imaginary world, and legendary magic is mentioned, but it is dismissed as a legend and no magic is ever seen. ![]()
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