Wildboy - book review by Harry Devereux

By Anna Garthwaite | Posted: Tuesday June 14, 2016

This book is a finalist in the 2016 NZ Book Awards for children in the Hell children's choice awards.

Review:

This book has a bit of a slow start but it goes on to be an action packed book and with a sprinkle of comedy. This book would be good for a reader with no limits I also think this book is for people ages 10+ as it has a bit of coarse language. 

The thing I particularly like about this book is the way it flows and the language the writer uses that can lure you in. This book is about a man who walks the coast of new Zealand and faces weird obstacles along the way he goes from Cape Reinga to Bluff then all the way back to the top of the North Island. He pretty much does a lap of NZ, once he leaves he tells his family he will be back in six months it turns out to take 4x that which Is 2 years! He had to walk over terrain like beaches (most known Ninety mile beach) hills valleys and a lot more. When he left he was told he was never going to make it but boy did he prove them wrong and that's how he got his nickname WildBoy.

Who would enjoy this?

Curious readers that get their head stuck in a book.