Review: #38
Title: George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
Series: George's Secret Key to the Universe (not official title) - 2nd book
Author: Lucy Hawking and Stephen Hawking
Read Before: no
My Comments: Starts off slowly (just like a lot of other books), and pretty boring, there’s nothing interesting that’s happening in the beginning, this is half fiction, half non-fiction. I guess I might have to read the previous book in order to understand fully what some of the events in this one is talking about (although it’s pretty easy to pick up the gist of it), the whole non-fiction part of this book, the fact files, they break the flow of the storytelling, making it annoying at times (as you finish reading the fact file, then the story goes back but you’re kinda lost where it went up to and so had to flick back through the pages again to see), but I don't see any other way to put them in without disrupting the flow (if you put it at the back, then no one’s going to read it and it’s so inaccessible). The fact files are integrated better as the book goes on so it is not a critical nuisance, the story gets much better as well, where they goes to different planets and moons is very fun, as it provides a different view of conditions than what we usually see. Being a kids book, there are a few parts where it’s a bit lame, and there’s no real conclusion to the plot, it just leaves that little bit missing and unexplained. The pictures included of real life photographs (and some artist impressions) taken from space are really cool.
Rating: 6/10
Rereadability Factor: 5/10