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A review by ashleylm
The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
4.0
Sweet, but not as engaging as the first book, perhaps because I'm a huge fan of New York City, and getting to read about children who live there kept me both rapt and envious. The move to a more rural settings makes the adventures far more prosaic for me (I can scarecely recall them, only days later. There was ice skating at one point, and sort of a meaningless discovery of a secret room. The best part for me involved a part-time job back in NYC, except it was never fully described or depicted, despite its allure.
She's a wonderful writer, of course, it's just that I preferred when she wrote about the big city. Her characters never seem less than true, although a modern child might have trouble believing people their age were once so polite and generally well-behaved.
(5* = amazing, terrific book, one of my all-time favourites, 4* = very good book, 3* = good book, but nothing to particularly rave about, 2* = disappointing book, and 1* = awful, just awful. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)
She's a wonderful writer, of course, it's just that I preferred when she wrote about the big city. Her characters never seem less than true, although a modern child might have trouble believing people their age were once so polite and generally well-behaved.
(5* = amazing, terrific book, one of my all-time favourites, 4* = very good book, 3* = good book, but nothing to particularly rave about, 2* = disappointing book, and 1* = awful, just awful. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)