Good pre-adventure part, with the children recovering from measles and sent on a holiday to regain their strength before returning to school (yeah, like that's going to happen in real life, but you can't blame kids for dreaming!), Bill visiting in secret while being hunted by criminals (isn't he putting the children and Mrs. Manning in danger?)... good stuff!

The adventure part is fine, but maybe not as exciting as the previous novel (The Valley of Adventure, which is probably my favorite in the series). We get the weird criminal plots and the dangerous situations characteristic of the Adventure series, and there are some very funny elements that make the story better, like the birds Puffin and Huffin, and Horace Tipperlong (aka Tripalong).

Very enjoyable. ( )

Jack, Jorge, Dolly y Lucy acompañados por Bill parten ilusionados hacia unas islas de Escocia para disfrutar de las aves y el paisaje salvaje de sus islas. Una vez allí todo resultará diferente a como habían planeado: unos delincuentes, que utilizan las islas como base de operaciones, convierten sus vacaciones en otra arriesgada aventura.

I have these novels as a box set and I'm reading them in the order in which the title is printed on the box. This one was next so I assumed (incorrectly) that it was the next one in the series. It seems to be the last one. A lot a lot of other adventures took place between the first one I read and this one -- I'm curious how old the children are now. They seemed to be more mature and know each other better than I was expecting, since I expected this one to be the second book in the series.

Fun read anyhow :-)
Adrianne ( )

AVENTURA EN EL MAR por Enid Blyton

I've been finding my "Sunday" reading insufficiently satisfying for a while of late, craving something with more intellectual stimulation. But now that I'm madly trying to prepare for Uni, unable to keep up with all the things that have to be done by the end of February, including reading lots of incomprehensible bumph on the "information society", Enid Blyton suddenly seems like a major haven. I could happily wrap myself up in Blyton for ages and just live in the world of imagination she offers. Which is clearly what always attracted me. Just goes to show that I needed to be doing something again - just perhaps not quite so frantically or intensely... ( )