Category: Enid Blyton

Dove and Raven grew up reading the most frightfully adventurous books by Enid Blyton. Wing agreed to be a jolly good sport and revisit them thirty years later. Necromommycon, an absolute brick, thought it would be rather wizard to join in.

The Famous Five #10: Five on a Hike Together by Enid Blyton

Posted on 27th August 20194th October 2020 by Wing

Wing recaps Famous Five #10: Five on a Hike Together by Enid Blyton and would probably kill you if you drank every time she said WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK.

The Famous Five #9: Five Fall Into Adventure by Enid Blyton

Posted on 19th December 20184th October 2020 by Dove

Dove recaps Famous Five #9: Five Fall Into Adventure by Enid Blyton, which is the most racist Blyton to date and, as a bonus, features Julian and Dick’s first TWO forays into kidnapping.

The Famous Five #8: Five Get Into Trouble

Posted on 17th October 201812th April 2019 by necromommycon

Necromommycon recaps The Famous Five #8: Five Get Into Trouble wherein the official summary is absolute nonsense, and the Five are the most organised kidnap victims in the world.

The Famous Five #7: Five Go Off to Camp by Enid Blyton

Posted on 20th September 20184th October 2020 by Wing

Wing recaps Famous Five #7: Five Go Off to Camp by Enid Blyton and GOES BOOM. A LOT. WE HAVE REACHED INSUFFERABLE JULIAN AND SEXISM FOR ALL.

The Famous Five #6: Five on Kirrin Island Again by Enid Blyton

Posted on 3rd August 201812th April 2019 by Dove

Dove recaps The Famous Five #6: Five on Kirrin Island Again by Enid Blyton, wherein everyone hates on Anne, despite her being the best thing in this. Also, there’s a tower, secrets, adventure, and it’s all incredibly boring.

Famous Five 5: Five Go Off in a Caravan by Enid Blyton

The Famous Five #5: Five Go Off in a Caravan

Posted on 25th July 20184th October 2020 by necromommycon

It’s all food porn, flirtatious farm girls, and SECRET ADVENTURES.

Famous Five - Five Go to Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton

The Famous Five #4: Five Go to Smuggler’s Top by Enid Blyton

Posted on 16th May 20184th October 2020 by Wing

Wing recaps Famous Five 4: Five Go to Smuggler’s Top by Enid Blyton and spends far too much time bored considering the book is filled with smugglers, secret passages, and animal attacks.

The Famous Five #3: Five Run Away Together by Enid Blyton

Posted on 18th April 201812th April 2019 by Dove

Dove recaps The Famous Five #3: Five Run Away Together by Enid Blyton, wherein Julian is rather insufferable, but the food – when they get it – is absolutely wizard!

The Famous Five #2: Five Go Adventuring Again by Enid Blyton

Posted on 21st March 201812th April 2019 by necromommycon

Necromommycon recaps Five Go Adventuring Again by Enid Blyton. In the second Famous Five book, Julian, Dick, George, Anne, and Timmy the dog return to Kirrin Cottage for the Christmas holidays.

The Famous Five #1: Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton

Posted on 21st February 20184th October 2020 by Wing

Wing recaps Famous Five #1: Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton and nearly dies in paroxysms of joy over ridiculous children and their doggy and their charming adventures and their treasure.

Secret #1 – The Secret Island

Posted on 17th January 201812th April 2019 by Dove

Dove recaps Enid Blyton’s first book, The Secret Island, in which there is child abuse, manual labour and lashings and lashings of… lettuce.