Switch! The Lost Kingdoms Of Karibu (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
I gave up on this one about halfway through, but I'm giving it three stars instead of two because it probably really deserves at least four.... I really enjoyed the beginning, which introduced us to a fascinating world --- modern Africa, which felt a bit like India in the Secret Garden. Unfortunately, the book is middle readers, which always feels too young for me due to lots of external conflict and not much internal conflict.I probably would have still finished it, but I got drawn away to write a review on another book, and by the time I got back to this one, it wasn't feeling very enticing any more. Switch is a fun and exciting adventure through a world filled with witches, shapeshifters, and mischievous critters. The boys find help in the most unlikely of places, and danger where they never expected. My favorite character was Jimoh, the expert tracker, but all of the characters were interesting in their own way and each of the boys grew and changed over the course of the story. Sometimes the dialogue seemed a little off for teenaged boys and there were a few elements of the book that felt kind of arbitrary, like they were thrown in just to heighten tension and didn't really have much of a tie in to the actual story. But all in all I enjoyed this book and would happily recommend it to any fan of YA fantasy.
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