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"You can't help thinking that if more authors were like Keith Gray, more teenage boys would read," The Herald"
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Four stories. Four people. Four lives. All brought together and changed forever by this one book. This is an astonishingly original story which stays with the reader long after the last page. Barrington Stoke specialises in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A bit patchy, but still plenty for less confident readers to enjoy.,
By Ivan Zehdra-Maychayne (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Chain (Barrington Stoke) (Paperback)
Have just read this (in more or less one sitting) with a 14 year old lad with fairly limited reading skills, and he quite enjoyed it. The premise is pleasingly quirky for a book of its length and accessibility (there's a book that passes between four different owners, bringing something positive into each of their lives), and in general it delivers in terms of plot, character, intrigue, etc.
However, it *is* a bit patchy. The second mini-story (about a poker game) is the strongest, but a couple of the others - the last, in particular (which is very short and mushily sentimental in comparison with the earlier stories) - aren't quite so involving. I'd also say that while the first three stories (all with male 'leads') seem 'pitched' at boys, the last one (about a daughter reading to her dying father at his bedside) seems far more likely to appeal to girls. Odd. Overall, though, an engaging and unpatronising book with plenty to keep less able/less enthusiastic readers hooked in. A good one. Recommended.
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