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Please Return to the Lands of Luxury by Jon Tilton
4.0
This is a middle grade story about a young girl named Jane. She lives on an island completely filled with trash. One day she finds a beautiful doll with a tag that says “please return to Gloria Thatcher”. Jane is determined to get the doll back to Gloria and embarks on a grand adventure.
I must say that I really enjoyed this book. The world the characters live in is very interesting (but I must admit I really love dystopian stories!) and I’d love to read more about it. The chapters are rather short, there is always a lot going on and it has some important messages - very suitable for children. For me personally, a little more elaboration on the world, the island and the government (why? how? when?) would have been wonderful. But since this is the first book of a new series - who knows what's still to come! I’m very excited to read what’s next for Jane and her friends.
I really think this will be a wonderful new series for children and I really really really hope that it will be translated to Dutch, so that I can add it to our library and my children can read it as well!
A big thanks to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for allowing me to read this book as an avanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review. This has not affected my review in any way.
I must say that I really enjoyed this book. The world the characters live in is very interesting (but I must admit I really love dystopian stories!) and I’d love to read more about it. The chapters are rather short, there is always a lot going on and it has some important messages - very suitable for children. For me personally, a little more elaboration on the world, the island and the government (why? how? when?) would have been wonderful. But since this is the first book of a new series - who knows what's still to come! I’m very excited to read what’s next for Jane and her friends.
I really think this will be a wonderful new series for children and I really really really hope that it will be translated to Dutch, so that I can add it to our library and my children can read it as well!
A big thanks to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for allowing me to read this book as an avanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review. This has not affected my review in any way.