Great start but lame ending
Groosham Grange (Groosham Grange 1) by Anthony Horowitz
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3 out of 5 stars
Reviewed January 7, 2018
This book was prescribed reading for my son’s English class. I picked it up on a whim, and found I couldn’t put it down! Very funny and satirical, it kept me riveted all through, with a feeling of “Oh! What’s going to happen next!!”. However, towards the end, some of the key elements of the story are simply stated, without anecdotes to make them impactful… like one of the teachers is a werewolf. I looked up the year of writing, and it was good to note that this is written before the Harry Potter series – in some ways, a sort of precursor to Harry Potter. It has all the elements of a great story, but just a little something is missing. After following the travails of the main character, the boy David Eliot, you want him to defy his enemies and come out the winner by far – but this doesn’t exactly happen. Without giving away the story, let me just say that I felt let down by the ending.
