Reviews for The Jungle Girl (Large Print Edition)

The average rating for The Jungle Girl (Large Print Edition) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-30 00:00:00 Richard Costello The Jack Higgins character Paul Chavasse appears in several novels and is essentially a James Bond-style action hero. In this one, he has various cut-throat adventures in eastern Italy and the swamplands of Albania while trying to help a beautiful agent in her quest to recover a priceless religious artefact, the Black Madonna. The entire book is best summed up as fast-moving trash. Barely a word of it is believable or rooted in reality, but it's never so bad that you feel the urge to give up and read no further. The dialogue is alternately cliched and just plain wooden, and some of the action sequences end up provoking unintentional amusement. The Albanian locale is, at least, unusual and interesting, and Higgins manages a handful of memorable scenes in his story. It's also mercifully brief nonsense, and therefore won't take too much of your time to finish! I can't honestly recommend this book to anyone, but I wouldn't say it's fair to go around warning people to steer clear either. It is what it is - simple-minded action fodder which you can read without needing to tax your brain too severely!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-20 00:00:00 davi gazzette This was not up to Higgins' regular standard. Most of it is set in 1965 in Italy and Albania. This is more of a fun action read with a straight-forward plot with very few twists and turns.