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Les Trois Desperados (2013)

by Caroline Lawrence(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Hachette Romans

series

The P.K Pinkerton Mysteries

review 1: Twelve-year-old P.K. Pinkerton is quite unusual. Half Sioux and half white, he has both a gift: keen observational skills, and a thorn: an inability to read or display emotion. When his foster parents are murdered he flees to Virginia City, hoping to evade the deadly desperadoes and keep his inheritance. Fast paced, full of cliff-hangers, startling revelations and well-drawn characters, this wild-west mystery keeps the pages turning.
review 2: This book had great potential, and being a fan of the western genre I was really looking forward to reading it. However, I was just not okay with so many things. I don't even know where to begin, so here is a list in no particular order:1. If you're going to have a character with autism, no matter what the time period of... more the book is, please don't use the term "Freak of Nature." Talk about how the person thinks differently or looks at things differently, but don't continually make it a disability or a theme - and don't continue to harp on it when you do want to come up with some other excuse.2. If you're going to write a book aimed at the middle grades (I would suggest, based on the writing the 7-13 crowd), don't have so many references to sex, prostitution, violence and drugs. While I think kids of that age need to know what that stuff is all about to protect themselves, they don't need to learn all of the euphemisms. Especially the ones that are so extremely out of date.3. This book was not funny. Not ha-ha funny or silly funny or stupid funny or ironic funny. It was like the author was just trying to make it funny and horribly not succeeding. On an epic scale. And that's not even enough to make it funny. So don't bill it as a "rip-roaring" tale of adventure and mystery.4. There was not too much adventure. After the kid finds his foster parents gruesomely murdered (which description is not appropriate for the target audience, see #2), he pretty much spends the whole book running in circles from the bad guys. This book was basically like reading about a dog chasing his tail. Hence why I ended up skimming the last 75ish pages and not feeling like I missed ANYTHING.5. There was no real mystery. Everything was presented up front. Seriously, no idea where the mystery was supposed to be.6. The characters were so flat and boring that I didn't even enjoy the cameo of newspaperman Sam Clemens. Seriously, characters were so 2-dimensional that she made Mark Twain boring! I wasn't even aware that that was possible!Basically, if you read this book, you've been warned. less

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