Second Form at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

In the Fifth at Malory Towers: My overall favourite.

This is also the first time we get to see the younger generation, with Darrell’s sister Felicity, so that even as the original cast grow up into sensible young women, we still get plenty of tricks and japes! Upper Fourth at Malory Towers: One of my favourites! I love the entirety of Clarissa’s plotline in this book, especially the events that bring about the midnight feast. Zerelda the American is very funny, and the midnight horse rescue is fun. It’s interesting how content Enid Blyton was to create these single-faceted characters, but where Belinda and Irene’s talents, for example, don’t dominate their personalities, Mavis’s “Voice” is so deeply boring that when she gets her comeuppance, I barely care. Third Year at Malory Towers: This one introduces Bill, one of my favourite characters, and Mavis, one of the most boring. I do love the first time Gwendoline tries to make friends with a rich person though!

The main plotlines are a little too dramatic for my taste, culminating in two girls hanging over a cliffside in a storm. Second Form at Malory Towers: Not one of my favourites. As a kid, I identified so strongly with the ‘good’ girls that I never really noticed, but as an adult it’s definitely noticeable. General impressions on this reread were that the girls were quite a bit bitchier than I remembered – they can be extremely harsh to the girls they deem ‘not quite right’. Ownership: I don’t remember a time before owning these! The general gist, however, is that these are brilliant!īook: Malory Towers (Second Form, Third Year, Upper Fourth, In the Fifth, Last Term) by Enid Blyton I thought it might get a tad tedious if I reviewed these all individually, so I’m going to give a quick overview of the rest of the series ( my review of First Term at Malory Towers is here).

Second Form at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton