Books like The O'Sullivan Twins

Yes and really rather sadly, I do find it quite frustrating just how quickly in the second book of her St. Clare’s series, Enid Blyton starts relying rather heavily and strongly on extraordinary scenarios such as a boarding school fire and a misunderstood (and typecast as a troublemaker) schoolgirl rescuing another (and of course and naturally totally unworthy and stereotypically horrid girl from certain death. For while The O’Sullivan Twins has indeed been generally readable and enjoyable enough (and once again features tricks, clandestine feasts and both students and form mistresses being both nasty and nice), personally, I for one have equally found Enid Blyton’s general storyline rather predictable at best and becoming more and more reliant on outing the nasties, on teaching rather preachy character lessons and on “bad” girls not only needing to redeem themselves but having to do this not slowly, organically and realistically but by means of heroics, by means of engaging in rather unbelievable feats (such as Margery rescuing Erica) that are at best a trifle fantastic. And furthermore, I also do kind of have to wonder why the second instalment of the St. Clare’s boarding school novels has been titled The O’Sullivan Twins by Enid Blyton, as really, while Pat and Isabel O’Sullivan do play important roles in the story, their characters are in my opinion no more and and no less significant than ANY of the other St. Clare’s first formers, so why single them out in the book title when the contents of the presented narrative really focuses on ALL first form St. Clare’s pupils and NOT just on Pat and Isabel (and yes, whom I sometimes actually think even play a rather obvious second fiddle so to speak to especially characters Margery, Lucy and Erica). Combined with the fact that in particular with regard to Lucy and Erica, in The O’Sullivan Twins, Enid Blyton has sadly gone quite out of her way to render Erica into a total and unredeemable “bad apple” (and too one-sidedly horrible to in my opinion be readily believed) and Lucy so all encompassingly good and positive that she also feels just way way too positive to be in any manner realistic (not to mention that Cousin Allison is just way too often being labelled as so-called feather headed), while The O’Sullivan Twins is indeed a decent enough sequel to The Twins at St. Clare’s have definitely not been nearly as enjoyable and much too one-sided and full of overly developed stereotypes.