The Girl From Junchow (~)

I've finally finished a book. It's not one of Fairul's which is because I was afraid that i was going to finish all of his books before he even got any of mine, but thankfully he's got the package now so I can start reading his again. Anyway, the book I finished was The Girl from Junchow by Kate Furnivall. It was an interesting book, but I wasn't able to just sit still and read it straight through, so I kind of forget what happened in the beginning, which makes me think that's it's not that great of a book. But it probably is. It's a continuation of another book (which I haven't read) so some of it I didn't really understand, so I guess I would recommend that you read the first book first. I found that the book dragged on a little, and didn't really get into the characters, however, the character bit might just be because of the previous book.

This book is about a girl and her brother searching for their father in Soviet Russia. It really divulges a lot of information about what it was like in Stalin's Russia, and how horrible it was for the prisoners in the labour camps. I don't know why they would have the labour camps when it is communism. But I suppose that it might be a way to 'smarten up' the richer people, seeing as I think that's what Stalin was trying to do: punish the rich people for making the poor people live in such squalor.

Anyway, all in all it's an okay book but I probably wouldn't recommend it unless the person read the first book first.

Until next time, happy reading!