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The Adventure of Maisie Voyager
Maisie Voyager used to explore the world with her parents. She now lives in a tall town house with Aunt Hetty, experiencing 'normal' life. But strangers start appearing, cryptic messages are left, and Aunt Hetty is kidnapped!
Following a trail of clues that leads her to abandoned tin mines and a hunt for treasure, Maisie discovers that evil Dr Gallows and his gang have taken her family hostage and it's up to her to save them. Facing many challenges along the way including sinister strangers, cold dark tunnels and the colour purple, Maisie has a big adventure ahead of her with big decisions to make.
This captivating novel is a great read and offers a positive heroine with a unique outlook on life that all children will relate to, especially children on the autism spectrum.
Following a trail of clues that leads her to abandoned tin mines and a hunt for treasure, Maisie discovers that evil Dr Gallows and his gang have taken her family hostage and it's up to her to save them. Facing many challenges along the way including sinister strangers, cold dark tunnels and the colour purple, Maisie has a big adventure ahead of her with big decisions to make.
This captivating novel is a great read and offers a positive heroine with a unique outlook on life that all children will relate to, especially children on the autism spectrum.
238 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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September 10, 2017
Did not love this book, though I was glad to see an autistic character not portrayed as a savant or maths lover.
However, the plot takes ages to get going, and then it all happens suddenly, without any suspense or anything at all. Blurb talks about cryptic messages - there's only one.
Whole plot is explained by one character in middle of book.
Maisie has an odd way of talking, like a small adult, but other times she gets confused. It didn't feel realistic for her to have such a wide vocabulary (whilst sounding a little stiff) yet get confused over the simplest word meanings at the age of 12!
Her constant explanation of sensory issues also felt a little forced - most kids don't particularly realise their responses to things are 'different' so would not bother explaining them. Felt a little too forced a little too many times.
Bad guy talks like a bad comic book character. Some bits of book were useless and not related to plot, so not sure why they were there.
However, the plot takes ages to get going, and then it all happens suddenly, without any suspense or anything at all. Blurb talks about cryptic messages - there's only one.
Whole plot is explained by one character in middle of book.
Maisie has an odd way of talking, like a small adult, but other times she gets confused. It didn't feel realistic for her to have such a wide vocabulary (whilst sounding a little stiff) yet get confused over the simplest word meanings at the age of 12!
Her constant explanation of sensory issues also felt a little forced - most kids don't particularly realise their responses to things are 'different' so would not bother explaining them. Felt a little too forced a little too many times.
Bad guy talks like a bad comic book character. Some bits of book were useless and not related to plot, so not sure why they were there.
August 3, 2016
Picked up this book as I was trying to find adventure books suitable for middle grade girls. Dislike that the story was slow for the first half and right smack in the middle, protagonist meets someone who tells her everything that is going on. So basically the whole context is laid-out for the reader eg. what is happening, which persons are involved... Not my first choice recommendation for middle grade readers looking for an adventure/mystery story.
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