My First Book Review
Title: Passion Flower
Author: Jean Ure
Number of Pages: 202
Genre: Family
ISBN: 0 00 715619 7
I enjoyed this book quite a lot. It is teaching you things that may happen in your own life. It’s a really good book to read and it has some humor in it. You can imagine what is going on inside your mind which is really cool. I really like the characters in this book. They are described very well and you can picture them in your mind. This book has some pictures in it to give you a brief idea of what they look like. Stephanie is the oldest one and she is very girly and mature for her age. She wishes to be trusted more. Sam is the younger one. She is a bit of a tomboy. She loves to get her own way and looks up to her sister as a role-model. The story-line is well set out and is easy to follow. I recommend it to everyone but I think it is more suited for 10 to 12 year olds. I rate this book a 9/10. This book is part of a series on life events that can happen to children but is made into a fictional story, this one is about parents getting divorced. It makes me feel sad when I read that their dad abandons them at the airport but it has a happy ending which makes me feel happy. I think that the dad is very irresponsible and he shouldn’t have been trusted with the children.
There are two girls and their mum throws a frying pan at their dad because he spent the cooker money on gambling. The Afterthought, Sam is her real name but her dad calls her the afterthought because they weren’t planning on having any more kids but he says she is a very nice afterthought, is her dads number 1 fan so she gets really angry when her dad moves out. She becomes grumpy all the time and so does the mother. So the mum has decided that Stephanie and Sam can go and stay with their dad down in Brighton, England whilst she goes and holidays in Spain. Little did they know it would turn out to be a disaster.
Their dad lives in a basement of Ms. Devine’s house. She gets very grumpy when he doesn’t pay the rent because he has no money. But he gets in trouble with some other people so they have to leave and they run away to an apartment that her dad’s friend owns. They have bought a kitten called Titch. The children get locked in a room for 7 days because their dad doesn’t want them to go outside in case the “bad guys” see them but they still get fed. Then they leave and go to the airport. They are going to go on a plane to France but they can’t take Titch so the Afterthought screams and screams so dad pretends to go in to change the tickets so Titch can go on with them but he never comes back to get the children! He leaves on a Plane and goes to America. The children call their mother and get home safely but they never speak to their dad again!
By Bridie McNamara.
