The plot is very promising here, so it's a shame that it's so badly executed. The lack of a single main character is this book's main stumbling point; no character is actually fleshed out enough for the reader to sufficiently invest in the story emotionally, and when there are as many as ten POVs in one chapter it becomes very difficult to place yourself at the scene or care what happens at the end. Books with multiple points of view are fine if written well, however this does not carry it off and changing point of view mid-paragraph feels clunky and quite frankly started to annoy me.An extra star for the football scenes though, those I did enjoy. Welcome to the wacky world of Ribblestrop!Ribblestrop is a boarding school set in the lovely English countryside in Devon, but all is not what it seems. With an air of the movie Hot Fuzz things slowly unravel as you meet the characters and arrive at the school.With day to day school life, a sweet but zany headmaster, a deputy head mistress who enforces the rules, a building which was burnt down in the last school year and a laboratory and catacombs underneath the school, things are about to get interesting!I did really enjoy this book, at first it was so bizarre and many characters all over the place, it was hard to keep up but in the end all the bit and pieces of things that had happened brought the story all together. There are some hilarious, laugh out loud moments too, especially some of the pranks they pulled on the teachers.The author is becoming a favourite of mine, Trashed was awesome and realistic, this was funny and not serious!I'm surprised this book hasn't got higher ratings!
What do You think about La Scuola Dei Mostri (2011)?
Crazy book, but I'd like to go to this school! Good reading for kids.
—Jess
