Involves football foxes ghosts and leicester a good fictional book by a well selling author

Terrible. OK, this is a children's book, and I am not a 6 year old boy, so maybe my review should just be 'wasn't for me, moving on'. But I was really looking forward to a book about foxes and Richard the III, and this didn't deliver. The foxes aren't very foxy (they are really any other normal family, with some tedious gender stereotypes - the mum hunts 'good' foord, and the dad always finds pizza and chips, there are four children, but it is the one boy who is smarter and gets to go and watch the football / have adventures etc) and Richard III isn't very Richard III ish, just strangely annoyed about Shakespeare (how did he even find out about Shakespeare when he's buried in a car park?). It is a problem with trying to make stories short for children while still allowing characters to change and repent, but his sudden changes of mood are very odd.

On the other hand, it is really cool they found the body of Richard III in a car park, and it's pretty cool that complete outsiders Foxes football club won the league. So if you want a book about both those things that takes about 15 minutes to read, this may be the book for you. ( )