Rating: 3 out of 5

This is my first reading experience which is using the ebook as part of the story, rather than it just being the medium. Quite an interesting idea interlacing an adventure story on top of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”. It took me a while to work out how to make the book work best for me, and the method I chose was to read the whole of “Treasure Island” first and then read the booksurfing part whilst the underlying story was fresh in my mind. I’d originally tried to follow the links between the two stories but soon got quite lost. I don’t remember ever reading “Treasure Island” and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can imagine that children reading the booksurfers books would inadvertently end up reading the classics without it feeling like homework or an English class, which is quite interesting. I’m not sure I’d read any more of them as I mainly chose to read this as I was curious about the overlaying idea rather than due to the nature of the story.

Highlighted passages:

He was also beginning to think that Harriet, who was now handing him the Nautilus, was the kind of person who said very little, but what she did say was worth listening to.

crazier than a monkey on a pogo stick,

Everyone laughed and for a moment relaxed. Jake liked the sound. It was why he’d always used humour to get through bad situations. He knew it irritated some people, particularly those who thought that life was very, verybr serious and should not be joked about.

Originally posted to my Goodreads account