Choose Your Own Adventure: Bog

51. Hekla’s Children – James Brogden

In some stories, the moral ends up being “no field trips.” Picnic at Hanging Rock and Hekla’s Children would be two of those stories. If you take the children on a field trip, they will disappear, be it into a giant rock formation or a bog. However, in Hekla’s Children we find out what happened after the children disappeared and left their English teacher behind to be released for lack of evidence. It’s kind of a lot and very much answers the question of how well these children would really do if stuck in the Bronze Age without any relevant skills. It’s fun enough, and I like a good bog body and picky forensic anthropology scenes, but towards the end everything seemed all over the place, which was a bit of a drag even if it was quick read.

 

Finny having no relevant skills never stopped his exploring either.