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    The Secret of the Water Knight

    Written by Rusalka Reh

    Narrated by Cris Dukehart

    1.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    While vacationing on an island with her parents, a young girl must overcome her greatest fear in order to rescue the local animals and sea life from the magical curse of a villainous toad. Beloved by fans for her beautifully written stories and interesting characters, Rusalka Reh has penned yet another fun and fantastical tale that is sure to enchant young readers the world over.

    When Kat's mom suggests a family vacation to the beach, her ten-year-old daughter is less than thrilled. In fact, the idea sounds downright lousy, considering the fact that Kat is terrified of the water. Yet from the moment they arrive, Kat senses there is something very unusual about the island. Her hunch turns out to be right: moments after discovering a strange whistle in the surf, she realizes she can hear the island's animals talking to her. She doesn't understand why…until a dolphin known as the Water Knight tells her about a curse cast upon the island by a villainous toad. Only a child can break the spell and only during a special full moon that shines once every forty years. The dolphin tells Kat that just such a night is rapidly approaching, and it's up to her to free the island from the curse. But to do so, she must dive down into the toad's lair, deep beneath the ocean's dark waters. Packed with adventure and suspense, this story about a plucky girl conquering her greatest fear makes for a rousing-and heartwarming-read.

    A worthy follow-up to her novel Pizzicato: the Abduction of the Magic Violin, Rusalka Reh's newest tale, The Secret of the Water Knight, is sure to be praised for its excitement and suspense and hailed as a "compelling story of adventure…in the vein of a classic story, enjoyable by young and old alike."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 27, 2012
    ISBN9781469212029
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    • 1/5
      I had to get this book because the cover is simply amazing, but I felt disappointed with the story.

      I finished reading the book but I feel like I quit more or less in the beginning. I was hoping to change my mind, but it never caught my interest at all. Maybe I built my expectation around a villain that didn't exist... It just went in a different direction.

      Kat can't swim so he her parents decide they should go on vacation to an island. There's a lot of spanish in it, if a person doesn't know a thing it can break the flow and interest. I wonder what the second language is in the original version...
      Sometimes books lose to much in translation and that can be a problem, but with this one, I think the story is just not compelling.
    • 1/5
      I got an Advanced Reading Copy through the Amazon Vine program. It sounded like a fun story, but was a complete dud. I don't know if the story just didn't translate well or what, but as short as it was it was a struggle to get through. I've given one star to maybe three books in the hundreds and hundreds that I have reviewed...and this is a one star book.Kat is afraid of swimming. Her parents take her to an island on vacation with the intent of teaching her how to swim. While there Kat finds a magic whistle and finds that she is destined to defeat a horrible curse put on the island by a villainous toad. Will Kat be able to set aside her fear of swimming long enough the save the island?I am trying to think about positive things about this book and am having trouble. I guess it is kind of creative and had potential to be a fantastic story if you consider the general idea. The idea of a girl running into a dolphin who is a Water Knight is interesting, yet we didn't get to see much of the Water Knight in the story.First let's talk about the awkwardness of the writing. The writing does not flow, it is fractured and simple. Kat sounds more like a simpleton than a little girl throughout the book. I don't know if the book was poorly translated or what, but it was horrible. At 100 pages long this should have been a cinch to read, but it was a struggle. It was one of those books where I just kept shaking my head and thinking "did anyone actually read this before it was printed?" Seriously I want the hour that it took to read this book back.Kat's hilarious father is just annoying. Kat spends time dwelling on the Americaness of things on the island (bright water toys, loud tourists) but she is American and is on a Spanish speaking island; it comes off as confusing and odd. Kat makes a number of decisions that don't seem to fit with her characters and don't make a lot of sense. All of the characters are mere sketches, none of them are that interesting. There is a lot of Spanish in the book and it is translated, I guess it might help your kid learn a few Spanish phrases but mostly it was just obnoxious.Now let's talk about the numerous inconsistencies in the story. At one point Kat talks about how mosquitoes sting people...umm okay but being from Minnesota this was a glaring error...they bite, they don't sting. Then there is the man Kat meets with webbing up to the tips of his fingers...guess what he wears gloves all the time. The author explicitly described the webbing and how it goes to the very tips of his fingers and then spends time talking about his gloves. Ummm...okay..how do you get gloves on webbed hands? This is talked about multiple times in the story and it annoyed the stuffing out of me...maybe the webbing is really loose and he tucks it down between his fingers? I am not sure why this bothered me so much...it just didn't make sense.Lastly lets discuss the final epic (or actually pretty non-epic) battle between Kat and the evil toad. First of all Kat suddenly becomes one with the water and can swim after all the time of not being able to swim even a stroke. Next she swims into an underground cave and (not only stays down there forever) but can talk down there and walk around. So suddenly not only can Kat swim like a fish, she can breath underwater, stay under water indefinitely, and walk around. Why is this? As a reader we will never know. I read it through multiple times and couldn't figure out if it was the magic whistle, the Water Knight, or maybe just that the stars were aligned correctly. By the end of the story I had no idea what had happened...honestly though I didn't really care, I just heaved a breath of relief that I was done reading the most horrible book I have read this year so far (I've read 154 book this year so far so that is saying something).Overall just a horrible book. Poorly written, poorly edited, awkward language, an inconsistent plot, and dull characters. The writing level might challenge a five year old but any older children will be bored. The only interesting parts, where Kat interacts with the dolphin, are very brief. Please don't let your child read this book, they may never want to read again. Especially a middle grade reader. Get them something wonderful and magical like Harry Potter, Percy and the Olympians, The Warriors, or Fablehaven. I can't believe this book is targeted at that age group and I can't believe that it is in print. I almost never give one star reviews for books since for me that requires horrible editing, glaring errors, and an atrocious plot and characters...this book is the exception though, it had it all and not in a good way.