Book Review – The Eye of the North by Sinéad O Hart
Emmeline Widget has never left Widget Manor – and that’s the way she likes it. But when her scientist parents mysteriously disappear, she finds herself being packed off on a ship to France, heading for a safe house in Paris. Onboard she is befriended by an urchin stowaway called Thing. But before she can reach her destination she is kidnapped by the sinister Dr Siegfried Bauer.
Dr Bauer is bound for the ice fields of Greenland to summon a legendary monster from the deep. And he isn’t the only one determined to unleash the creature. The Northwitch has laid claim to the beast, too. Can Emmeline and Thing stop their fiendish plans and save the world?
My rating:
I thoroughly enjoyed this piece of middle grade loveliness! Emmeline is adorable, and Thing annoyed me a little right at the start, but properly grew on me.
I did feel that Emmeline’s parents were super mean to her, but I loved her little paranoid heart and her satchel of awesome. She was resourceful even when scared which was lovely.
The bad guys were a tiny bit cartoonish (as well the good guys in places actually) but it works well for a story about trying to prevent a monster being freed from the deeps of the ice.
I always love a quest or adventure, and this really spoke to that – plus they managed so much action along the way! It also felt relatively believable, they had to work hard to get to the end!
Super sweet and gorgeous.
Buy The Eye of the North from Waterstones.
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