Victoria's Reviews > The Great Wheel

The first half of this story was honestly very boring for me to even read to my sons, and I nearly gave up, but didn't want to, since I thought the subject matter would interest my sons. The problem I had with it is that the accents given to people are hard for me to even understand (and believe me, I read them using accents, which I did pretty well, but the way the words are typed up made it difficult).

Conn seeks his fortune from Ireland into NYC to work for an uncle, when another uncle picks him up to do another job. The whole story also revolves around a German girl that Conn met on the boat.

The whole building of the Ferris wheel in this story took a lot of time that also made this boring. There were some good portions, but it dragged during the middle especially. I almost said, "Let's go to the next book." I know that one of my sons didn't care for this story while they other one really enjoyed it a lot. I guess it was worth it. I don't know how historically accurate this story is in regards to Mr. Ferris and the building of his wheel, either.