Hey Fellas! Just Jack.R. again writing to tell you about a few books i read recently,

The first of the two books that i recently read is called "Ship Of Ghosts" and was written by Nigel Hinton. This story is apart of the Barrington Stoke book collection and i quite enjoyed it.
The story was about a young boy(Mick) who grew up near some shipping docks in england. The boy never knew his father but had heard about him being a sailor from his mother, this made Mick also want to be a sailor and he dropped out of school to join the crew of a local cargo ship as the assistant cook and cleaner. Mick worked for his Captain Glenn who was cursed for killing his best friend and eventually also dies when Mick and the rest of the crew push him out of the ship during a storm.

The second story is called "Dead Red" and was written by the fabulous Ruth Starke. The story belongs to the Crime Waves collection and was an interesting read.
The story is about Angelo Martinelli or Angel for short and his crime fighting team who need to solve the reason why the schools cricket team vomited after eating the canteen curry pies. If Angel and his detective crew don't find out who spiked the pies and why The school may never be the same.

I believe that each book had something to like about it as well as something to not like about it. The first book i read called "Ship of Ghosts" was very good in the way in which it was written and the slow build up the occurred throughout the story until the Captain was murdered. Another plus about this story was that it was very easy to picture the conditions faced and the joys of being a teenager at sea. The second story Dead Red was a great read as a school type thriller and was very good in showing how the young kids went about solving the mystery of the spiked curry pies. I enjoyed the story as it was easy to follow how the Detectives were about the solve the mystery and also gave an insight into things that may just appear as a coincidence may have more to it.

I don't believe that anything could have been done to either of the books to make them better as they both were a very good read and were straight forward. The only small criticism i have for the Dead Red story was that perhaps at the end the Author could have explained what happened to the principal after the detectives found out about what he had done and if he was fired.

The short story would have to be one of my favorite kinds of stories to read they are short get to the point very quickly which is good for us readers who can get distracted from a book easily and you don't have to read huge amounts of pages to get the story line. So my belief therefore is that the short story is better for a reader such as myself but if i really enjoyed the short story and wanted to find more about the topic i would definitely go for a novel.
I would also select from the short story collection for the reasons that i have stated above.
Thanks alot for reading!
Jack.R.