Name: The Vile Victorians
ISBN: 9780590554664

Terry Deary

Martin Brown

The Vile Victorians

Kirsten Simkiss

I'd either give this one 3.5 or 4 stars out of the 5.

I liked this one a bit more than the Horrible Geography book I recently read. It definitely had trivia in it that I didn't know and it made fun of the era without being nearly as demeaning toward dead individuals. It definitely didn't gloss over how awful the time period was. Vile Victorians indeed! Nothing's worse than reading a book about how great things were in a time period and pretending there's nothing wrong in the world during that time.

I'm not a big fan of history, but this was fun to read. It really was.

Andrada D

This is such a seminal period I felt Terry only scratched its surface. I wanted it to be more - bigger, greater- and touching on the subject of monarchy which it didn't.... Presenting Queen V as a bore wasn't the way too go - good or bad, the woman was fascinating!