Out of Shadows

By Jason Wallace

Out of Shadows is a book about a boy called Robert Jacklin, who has moved from Britain with his mum and dad. He had to move to Africa because of his dads work. As a result of this, he has to go to boarding school in the middle of nowhere. When he gets to the school he makes friends with someone called Nelson but he's black. At the time the book is set around the 1970s there is a civil war between the blacks and whites. This means people like Ivan hate him.

My favourite character was Robert because he was kind and tried to do the correct thing so he then wasn’t hated by people like Ivan. I think that the characters were the typical kind of characters you would get in a book, although they were used in an interesting way with to link in with the story line.

The book flowed well and most of the time and made sense, but sometimes you didn’t understand it for example: the words “ja” and “lecker”. The book was quite gripping but it sort of went: something happened then nothing was happening then something happened then something isn’t happening. Finally, I think the ending was quite shocking and unexpected and it was sort of, oh. However, through out most of the story

In conclusion, I think the book was good and well written. It was a mean and gruesome kind of book so it was my kind of book. All in all it was really good.

Greg year 8