Review of 'The Lost King'

The Lost King is a book written by Scot Gardner, and is a story about revelations, suffering, but most importantly, friendship.

This book is about a character named Peter King, who is an offbeat teenager with weird interests and not very good social skills. He is forced to attend a school camp in the Wanoom Peninsula, and discovers a lot about survival, people and himself.

At the beginning of the story, he is quickly selected and put into a group with a girl he has never talked to before, another girl with a much different, more 'girly' life and Jye Sullivan, one of the most deep and interesting characters in the book.
These four characters are sent on navigation activity with a GPS, a map, a compass and a set of instructions. They quickly become disorientated in the deep mass of forest which is near impossible to get out of, and so begins a classic lost story of desperation and hope.

My favourite character in this book was definitely Jye Sullivan, because he has an incredibly interesting and deep history, and also because of incessant sense of humour, which is his wa of hiding this.
However, thorughout the book, he becomes more and more mature, and again establishes an intimate relationship with Bethany, who he had previously been romantically involved with. Throughout the book, he begins to let the other characters know about his painful history, and I believe that this is one of the most prominent and powerful messages of the book.


I liked this book because of the intense character development which the author has written about the characters, and because of the relationships, which build up with the amount of hardship which the group are facing. Another reason for this book being so enjoyable is because it is a classic lost story which is actually quite believable, and I believe that this is one of the author's major focus's.

One of the things which I did not like about this book was how predictable the plot was. Throughout the whole story, you almost knew what was going to come next, and there were not very many unexpected twists which made you want to read more.

I believe that people who enjoy this kind of action genre should read this book, but also, this book has a romantic twist to it. I believe that people from the age of eleven and up should read this book, but this book is appropriate for older students as well, because of the many messages it sends beneath the surface.

I believe that this is a very deep book, and there is a lot to be learnt from it.