In which Neatnik follows in Mommy's footsteps

I got an email a while back from BenBella Books. They were looking for young readers to become part of their Young Reviewers Circle. Neatnik said she was interested, so I signed her up. She has finished reading The Sword of Darrowand written her very first review ever. We will mail it to BenBella tomorrow but I wanted to share it with the blog peeps, too. The review form had five questions to be answered.

Review contains spoilers

What part of the book did you like best?
The part of The Sword of Darrow I liked best was when Queen Babette married Scodo because I love happy endings.

What part of the book did you like least?
The part I like least was when Pirate Telsinore killed an important goblin, Rildon, because I really don't like the killing. (Not big on confrontation, my kid.)

How would you rate the book overall?

• Completely awesome!
• Really good √
• Good
• Not so good
• Completely yucky!

Please write your overall thoughts.

• There were too many killings.
• This book is better for older kids because there are a lot of vocabulary words in it.
  (Hey, wait, I really liked that about this book: you learned a lot of new words, Neatnik!)
• I would love to own this as an ebook on my Kindle.
  (That's my kid!)

Was the book appropriate for your age? If not, what do you think is the best age to read this book?
Better for kids 10 and older.

There you have it, my daughter's first book review. I think it is very important to note that this book was written by a father-son team; they started writing after reading The Hobbittogether. The son was only eight years old when they began this project. Good job, Alex and Hal Malchow!

Don't know about you, but I am certainly looking forward to reading The Sword of Darrow. Lucky me: I can borrow my resident reviewer's copy, you have to wait until April 19th for yours (but you can pre-order at anytime).