It's the story of Hero, a mixed race girl in 19th century London. Her Dad, a famous boxer, is captured by relatives of his dead wife, who want to send him back to be a slave in Barbados - but they hadn't counted on Hero, who has her father's fighting spirit!
The general consensus was that it was a good read, but the tension flagged in places. It was good to read something set in London, and although some characters seemed less convincing than others, the action kept people's attention. Everyone who started it, finished it.
We all gave the book a score out of ten .... and the over all score was a solid 6.6
In my opinion this book was very boring as I hardly finished reading that book. Also I ranked this book 4 out of 10.
ReplyDeletePerhaps 'general consensus' was too strong a phrase! But other people scored it more highly, so it worked out at 6.6...
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