Reviews for Edwina victorious

The average rating for Edwina victorious based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-08-08 00:00:00 Michael Fitsimons So aside from the fact that the ending of Susan Bonners' Edwina Victorious feels rather rushed and considerably too much on the proverbial surface and therefore also with not nearly enough textual depth for my personal reading tastes (and yes, my inner child is also rather rebelling at this, and also at the fact that the sense of time and place in Edwina Victorious does kind of feel a bit off, that the novel on the one hand reads like it is from when it was published in 2000 but that the lack of featured technology such as cell phones, computers and emails also makes one feel as though the story might well be considerably older), I also do really find it rather problematic at best that although at the conclusion of Edwina Victorious, young Edwina Osgood does have to face up to her actions and behaviours (that even for the very best of political and social intentions, it is of course unacceptable to use someone else's words as your own and to sign someone else's name as your own, and yes, even if your first and last names are in fact exactly same), there is also an in my humble opinion very much machiavellian the end justifying the means attitude being featured in Edwina Victorious and as such equally not nearly enough condemnation and criticism of how Edwina uses her great aunt's name and old community activism letters to basically force the mayor to actively engage in cleaning up areas of the city that had been neglected and are desperately in need of this, in need of being refurbished and improved. For even with Edwina being forced to publicly apologise to the mayor (to everyone) for her subterfuge, to and for me, Edwina Victorious still seems to end with Edwina (as well as her friend and helpmeet Roger) only being very very mildly criticised and actually rather celebrated and feted, that Edwina's plagiarised and deliberately wrongfully signed letters are seen and approached by author Susan Bonners as something not inherently wrong in and of themselves. I guess what I am basically saying is that while I do in fact and indeed very much agree with Edwina and Roger wanting to become politically active and even with Edwina writing her letters to the mayor regarding city issues that she has noticed and wants fixed and changed (cleaning up dilapidated parks, allowing for a vacant city lot to become a useable space for a restaurant, making the local zoo more animal friendly), I also think that due to how Edwina has written those letters (using plagiarism and faking her great aunt's signature) that yes, Edwina Victorious really should have more lasting repercussions for both Edwina and for Roger and having them needing to make more amends (because in my opinion, the ending of Edwina Victorious really does seem to try to make rather light of the nefarious ways and means of Edwina Osgood's letter writing campaign and basically tends to in my opinion almost make excuses for Edwina having actively plagiarised her great aunt's letters and signed her great aunt's first and last name, even though plagiarism is majorly academically dishonest and faking a signature actually a criminal offence).

Review # 2 was written on 2009-01-19 00:00:00 Marcus Baffoe A cute middle-grade novel about a girl who speaks up when she sees something that needs fixing. The dedication in the front of the book is great: "To everyone who ever said, 'Somebody ought to write a letter'--and then wrote it."