The Unforgettable Fifth at Trebizon (Trebizon, #14)

by Anne Digby

Thursday, February 27, 2014

I read the first titles in this series in the early 80s, then discovered the last few on Kindle a couple of years back - the details are all on my write up of Fourth Year Triumphs at Trebizon if you want the gory details! I left the last one in the series for a rainy day that didn’t arrive until I was stuck without a signal to download a new book on my Kindle and discovered I had this lurking about unread.

I’m kind of sorry to have reached the end of the series - there are no “Sixth Form at Trebizon” books as far as I can see and I’ve not been interested by any of the “Chalet Girls Get Divorced” type of books there are around so I don’t think I’d pick up a third party one anyway. I’m happy to leave my childhood friends as they were! It wasn’t a great end to the series, the writing seemed much worse in this one than I remembered - far too much foreboding over very little and the plot seemed very much on the level of a bad romance novel in many ways (I’m not an expert of those either though) but I was pleased to be able to leave Rebecca and her friends on a happy note, and glad the author hadn’t decided to fill in a “what all the characters did next” bit for us. The characters are pretty much my contemporaries, albeit much more privileged ones, and I know what they’ve been doing from sixteen to forty and beyond, I’m happy to leave them be now.