The Doldrums (The Doldrums #1)

Nicholas Gannon

Greenwillow

2015

368 páginas

12h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780062320940

Archer B. Helmsley has grown up in a house full of oddities and treasures collected by his grandparents, the famous explorers. He knows every nook and cranny. He knows them all too well. After all, ever since his grandparents went missing on an iceberg, his mother barely lets him leave the house.

Archer B. Helmsley longs for adventure. Grand adventures, with parachutes and exotic sunsets and interesting characters. But how can he have an adventure when he can't leave his house?

It helps that he has friends like Adélaïde L. Belmont, who must have had many adventures since she ended up with a wooden leg. (Perhaps a crocodile ate it. Perhaps not.) And Oliver Glub. Oliver will worry about all the details (so that Archer doesn't have to).

And so Archer, Adélaïde, and Oliver make a plan. A plan to get out of the house, out of their town entirely. It's a good plan.

Well, it's not bad, anyway.

But nothing goes quite as they expect.

Resenhas (1)

4 (Muito bom)

O começo foi bem enrolado, e tive até vontade de deixar o livro de lado. Porém, como sou apaixonada em livros sobre crianças e jovens em aventuras e etc,
continuei, na espera de mais ação. Finalmente começaram a aparecer cenas mais empolgantes e deixaram o livro divertido de ler, mas foram apenas perto do final. Achei em um geral o livro meio lento; sem emoção. Vale a pena só pra quem realmente ama livros juvenis.