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5.0 out of 5 stars
Survival or Death?,
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This review is from: City Out of Sight: To the Wild Sky. Book Two (Puffin Story Books) (Paperback)
It is 1967 and six children have been involved in an airplane accident. These children are boyfriend and girlfriend Gerald and Carol, fraternal twins Bruce and Jan, and brothers Colin and Mark. Gerald has just turned fourteen, Mark is eleven and the others are thirteen. This small band has crash landed somewhere in northern Australia, or perhaps New Guinea. The pilot is dead and they are now stranded on a beach and apparently miles from civilization. The children think they are on Molineaux Island, but are not sure. In that place a settlement once existed ninety years ago, but all the inhabitants died of an unknown cause. The six must band together and struggle for survival or they too face death.
This story is the sequel to Southall's award winning book To the Wild Sky. That earlier novel covers the events just before take off to the end of the first day after the crash. According to the Author's Note this second book is a self-contained text that can be read on its own, however, I highly recommend that you read the first story before taking up this one. The first book ended on a very ambiguous note and apparently many readers wrote to Southall begging to hear more about what happened to the children. This novel is Southall's response and he has succeeded in making it almost as good a read as that first story. Southall wrote this book seventeen years after the first one. Southall's writing secret is that he explores each child's psychological turmoil while at the same time packing the story with many exciting events. The internal monologues are thus not at all boring: they actually add to the tension. Writing in this way we come to know each individual very well and I was certainly emotionally attached to some characters by the end of the book. I loved Jan, the courageous and capable team member who is also deeply a worry-wart. I was certainly sorry when this second book came to an end, not because I did not like the finish, but because I wanted to read even more. Well I guess everything has to end some time. This book is certainly worth five stars. I certainly intend to read more of Southall and hope that his many other books are at least half as good as this one.
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