Revolver, By Marcus Sedgwick

Revolver

Marcus Sedgwick

1910, Sig Anderson lived in a cabin in the Arctic Circle. He is alone in his cabin except for his father- who is now a corpse. He dies early on in the book by falling through a weak spot of ice. Sig now lives with his sister, Anna, and his step-mother, Nadya. They have gone to a local town near their cabin for help. They find a home with a creepy old man. They noticed that he had a revolver in his hand by the side of his hip. He was not afraid of shooting them. There was a man outside of his door claiming that his father ran off with his gold. Sig finally learned the truth about his father, he had a connection with that man in the `cabin.

I liked how they brought survival into the book. If it didn't have survival as the theme then the book would probably been really boring. In some parts of the book it was boring and I lost interest in it. Then later on when he realized about his father's past it got interesting again because it was both shocking to the reader and to Sig to learn about it.  

I thought that book was alright. Some parts of it made me lose interest very quickly. I would give this book 2.5 out of 4 stars. I gave it this because It was interesting during half of the book but when they were just going to places then I started to lose interest very quickly. I would recommend this book to 13 year old boys because so kids are interested into survival books around that age. If you are a teenage boy and love reading survival and adventure books then you would enjoy this book.