Reviews for Core domestic substances list

The average rating for Core domestic substances list based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-17 00:00:00 Sam Dirickson Mixes historical fiction, fantasy, and mystery into an entertaining story, set in the past but not the real past. 13-year-old Emmaline and her friend Flurp to sort out the problem caused by greedy Mayor Overbite and wicked Shmink the Bailiff, who have convinced the extremely naive townsfolk that a French "foreigner" (actually a monkey) is responsible for a rash of thefts in the town. Emmaline acts as the monkey's lawyer. The town's misguided inhabitants jump to some faulty conclusions about the ship-"If the people on it are foreigners and the French are foreigners, therefore the people on it must be French!" Mr. Shmink the Bailiff declares the chimp to be a Frenchman; he is called Monsieur Eek because that is his only utterance.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-12 00:00:00 Shawna Charbonneau Unfortunately the story contained within the pages of David Ives' Monsieur Eek doesn't live up to the downright silliness of the character and location names. I giggled through the first couple chapters as we are introduced to such characters as "Onga the Fat Bread Maker" who is actually rather shapely, but makes bread that is fat and locations like "Only Street" which earned its name by being the town of MacOongaFoondsen's only street. The humor in the premise of a chimp who is mistaken for a Frenchman wears thin pretty quickly as the book evolves into a rather straight-forward, and unfortunately quite boring, mystery. Perhaps if the titular character was given more to do it would have been better, but as it is Monsieur Eek is not nearly as good as David Ives' other young adult novels.