Pamela Butchart & Enid Blyton

Unfortunately I can't recommend this book or the previous one Pamela Butchart wrote in the Secret Seven series. It's not that I'm necessarily opposed to official continuation books (I quite like the Pamela Cox Malory Towers and St. Clare's continuation novels, and I'm happy to place them side by side with Blyton's as part of the same series). However, these Secret Seven ones do not belong to the same series as the ones by Enid Blyton. The characters are very different, even if they have the same name, the writing style is very different, the style of story is different.

These are not as bad as the Claude Voilier Famous Five continuation novels, but I don't see the point of using the name Secret Seven and then not making the effort to make them fit with the series. So they are books about seven characters who happen to have the same name as the ones in Enid Blyton's series, have also formed a club called Secret Seven and investigate mysteries. That's about it. Blyton's name doesn't belong on these. They should have been published as their own thing and be judged on their own merits or lack thereof.… (más)