Not too impressed, - Rated 
i have to say that i agree with 'A reader' whose title is 'why'? i also noticed the type casting errors of this book, not only was the naming completely out of place, but Cox obviously could not be bothered, or couldn't care about references the enid blyton had truley made in the other stories to the third form... the 6th form she could have had free lance over as this was to happen in the future, and therefore could have no more obvious hints than what was written at the end of the true last book.
i also believe that both of her writings... for the third and sixth form... were rather unorigional to say the least, she seems to have not only gone out of character with the speech of the girls but seems to have meely copied the 'summer term at st clares' with minor changes for them. same spiteful catty person who has their downfall and is never seen again, shock horror.
i cannot say that i would ever give any children of mine (should i ever have any) either of these books, best that they use their own imagination and make up their own 'gap fills'.
if they couldn't improve upon what had been written previously, they should have left well enough alone.
i would advise sticking to the origional 6 stories, and if possible, their origional publications.
(p.s. excuse the punctuation and spelling... i am tired and disappointed after reading the 'gap fills'.)
Have not read book but... - Rated 
In my experiance People who re-write books are always too lazy to fish for their own ideas.I've read all of Enid Blytons books and Attempted to read the contiuation of N.G.A.S but I couldn't manage it my idea is "You can't pick up where someone else left off"
Why? - Rated
OK, credit to Cox for completing the St Clare's series, but she's tried to update it at the same time. Was "Libby" a common name in the 1940s? Alison is supposed to (according to one of the later books)worship the head girl of the third form, not one of the girls in her class. I expected better.
This book is fantastic!!! - Rated 
Wow!, what a great book, this was the first time ever i tried online shopping, and it was at amazon.co.uk and I thought that it was great! This book is possibly one of the best that I have read in the series, I just finished it, Pamala Cox really knows how to develop the characters, Especially fern who is the trouble maker, this book kept me up some days till 12 in the night! Some bits are very tense and most are just about the girls who have great lives at St Clare's. My favourite bit in the whole book would be when the girls are celebrating Pam and Isabelles' birthday, and when fern grasses them up, And the day girl almost gets caught and it is so close. Brilliant book 5 out of 5!
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