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Island Of Doom (2012)

by Arthur Slade(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385737874 (ISBN13: 9780385737876)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Wendy Lamb Books

series

The Hunchback Assignments

review 1: Arthur Slade created a loveable and inspiring character in Modo, and I was caught up in the hunchback's life as soon as I started the first book. But, unfortunately, the author didn't deliver at all in the last book, The Island of Doom. Nothing happened the way I wanted it to...in fact, nothing happened at all. By the end of the book, we're back at square 1 and nothing has been accomplished in Modo's life other than the fact that he is an incredible spy. I wanted this book to be good, but it just didn't deliver.
review 2: The final book in this series is a splendid, rollicking adventure. Almost every kind of derring-do meets our favourite team of 'Tavia and Modo as they travel from Montreal, Canada to France then London and end up on a South Pacific Island. A... more mixture of steampunk and Frankenstein meet with the horrid collection of human and steel warriors vs super creatures sewn together from parts of corpses and enlivened by the maternal blood of Modo. Even though it has been a year since last reading about Modo, I jumped straight into this volume and was hooked from chapter one. This is one of those books that you wonder why you are reading so slowly then all of a sudden your brain just can't keep up with your hand's eagerness to turn the pages. I'm very pleased with how everything has been finished off. There is a satisfying final end but various threads are left to quietly dangle and any one could easily be picked up to start anew somewhere else down the line. In fact, I've seen the work for the new Graphic Novel that will be coming out as a standalone story and can only say "Thank God" this really isn't the end for Modo! less

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