Review: Fakes And Forgeries

Fakes And Forgeries by John Townsend

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I laughed out loud when Lu brought me this "True Crime" for kids series book. There are ten in the series. I think it's interesting that true crime is a clear genre in literature generally (and in tv and film), but that it is just a 'topic' in children's literature.

I rated it a 3 mostly because it was so fun to see this topic represented. But one of the key elements of fake and forgery stories is how the people get caught, or why they did it. There was none of the tension and interest that is generated by these key elements of the story. It was more or less an overview of kinds of fakes and brief introductions to some of the more interesting people. It should maybe be a 2 because of these problems, but the series kind of stands alone so it deserves a little more credit!



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