nce14210's review
3.0
A great adventure yarn. Having visited Ireland and the islands off its coast I was transported back to those rocky shores. Great characters, wonderful sense of place, engaging writing, a real page turner. A great boys book. Not my favorite kind of story, but it really kept my attention.
nigellicus's review
5.0
A deeply enthralling children's adventure set on and off the Galway coast. A missing father, legendary treasure, hard-bitten rogues, danger on land and on sea, all told with realism and romance, written with beautiful clarity and perfectly-crafted prose, a vivid portrayal of Irish rural life and coastal and village fishing communities and lovely illustrations by Richard Kennedy. Some of the story-telling conventions creak a bit, but the writing raises this book several levels, this is surely a classic of children's literature.
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