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The Highland Falcon Thief review


 This year I have found middle grade and teen books quite hit or miss for me however The Highland Falcon Thief was definitely a hit and I look forward to reading more of the series. I was quickly invested and genuinely wanted to pick it up and keep reading. 

In The Highland Falcon Thief Harrison and his Uncle Nat are enjoying the final journey of the Highland Falcon when a thief strikes and Harrison finds himself needing to investigate who this thief is before it is too late. 


As I mentioned I haven't loved all the middle grade books I have read over the past year and often have found that I don’t want to pick up and continue reading them however it was the exact opposite of this for The Highland Falcon Thief. Going into it I was hoping to enjoy my read but nothing much more and I was really pleasantly surprised once I started reading it. 


I really enjoyed meeting and getting to know both Harrison and Lenny, who Harrison meets on the Highland Falcon, during the story as they tried to investigate this mystery, put wrongs to right and explored the train. 


I also really liked meeting all of the other characters who were on the train. As the mystery was investigated it felt like we got a feel for who each character was and what their motivations might be. Many also felt like characters who had lived a life and had stories to tell which leads to the best types of characters that I always find myself wanting to read about.


The combination of the mystery and the train really added to the story and made it a fun and interesting read as someone who is definitely not a part of the target audience of the book or series. 


Something I look forward to most about continuing the rest of the series is getting to know more about different trains as it seems like each book will be spent on a different type of train which is something I find really interests me. I felt like a lot of what was said surrounding the train and journey the train took was stuff I already knew, however I look forward to being in new locations with new trains and instead learning that stuff. 


The mystery also helped keep the story engaging in a way that led to me being invested in the story the whole way through. I suspected all the characters in a different way and the evidence all lined up perfectly towards the actual thief, which is exactly what I want from a mystery book for any age unless the hook is that there could be a doubt in who actually committed the crime. 


To me the sign of a good middle grade or children's book is if it can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. That is what this book was for me and I now can’t wait to read more from both authors. This is definitely a middle grade book that I will be recommending in the future to readers of all ages.

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