The ecological lesson the book wants to teach, about respecting the environment and caring for animals, is very heavy-handed, and there are quite a few vaguely religious aspects to the story that seem to contradict a Christian worldview and felt uncomfortable for me to read to my kids.

The sense of humor puts me in mind of Roald Dahl, but the execution is both more preachy and more zany than I wanted it to be. Unfortunately, though my kids enjoyed the book, I found it to be a slog. I absolutely love Eva Ibbotson's historical novels for kids and teens, and I decided to read this book aloud to my kids based on that. As Minette and Fabio adjust to life on the island, and distance themselves from the troubles they left behind in their regular lives, they come to feel a strong affinity for the aunts and their creatures, but Lambert feels no such sympathy and soon brings a major threat to the island in the form of his greedy father. Two of the children, Minette and Fabio, are mostly agreeable and pleasant, but the third choice, Lambert, proves to be difficult and even dangerous in a variety of ways. Realizing that more hands would make lighter work for them as they age, the sisters pose as aunts and each one kidnaps a child. s.Three sisters, Etta, Coral, and Myrtle, have been tending to the unusual creatures on their island without help for years.

Tagged book, book review, books, c s lewis, c. However, they do both have extreme character development and really interesting internal journeys. They are so wishy-washy and both their personalities are unattractive. The trouble with Jane and Mark being the main characters, is that I don’t really like either of them. This book has a very different format from the other books in the series, and Ransom is a side character in his own story.

They each have to decide what they believe in when it turns out that archangels and ancient legends are real. corporation offers Mark a job to lure him into their wicked schemes, Jane is approached by a very different group of people who have gathered around Ransom. Jane and Mark are caught between the forces of good and evil. That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)

Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson