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imaginative fantasy fast-paced
gripping humorous adventure
Slow
Book of the month
Riverkeep by MARTIN STEWART
of
This month's book is a contemporary
adventure story involving a mix
and realism. Stewart
has written a very
story
about Wulliam, a boy who becomes
responsible for keeping a river clean. I
almost believed he was real.
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It's such a
tale that I
really couldn't put it down. Wulliam's
search to find a way to free his
father from a sea monster is even
in places and had me
laughing out loud. Although it's a bit
in places, the action
picks up speed and becomes very
towards the end
After dinner I put on my raincoat and went out for a walk. It was a nasty day, the sky covered with clouds, and it rained a little. As I have been moving slowly along the quiet empty streets, I saw a stranger. He first passed me by but then he stopped. «Are that you, Peter?» he cried out. It was Jones. «I have not seen you for ages», he said. – «Why, what are you doing here?» I asked— «Why are you going home?» - «I cannot», he answered. «I forgot the name of the hotel where my wife and I stayed». - «If you ring up the hotel, you will find out where you had stayed ». I smiled. He said that he had had no money. And he explained that they got to Brighton at 11 o'clock.
They left their things at the station and went to a hotel. He had changed his clothes and decided to go for a walk. The sun has been shinning brightly and there was nothing in the forecast about rain. I suggested that we went to my hotel. While Jones was taking a shower I thought the situation over. Then we began telephoning all the hotels in Brighton.
We did it so well that next afternoon Jones found both his hotel and his wife