The Coral Island (Puffin Classics)

I gave this book a chance since it an older Victorian era story and very much reads like one. You can expect a lot of fluffy on how things are described and dialog, but also alot of support for colonization, christianity and racist descriptions of the native people within the islands. I expected this, and still gave it a try to see where it goes. What I didn't expect was the lengths in which it would go for his themes of christianity is good and so is colonization. The ending in particular actually made me angry because it felt like the author wrote himself in this corner and didn't know how to make a good way to end the story. I didn't expect much out of the book and now I have beef with a dead man from the 1800s. How this is considered one of his most well known and beloved books I don't know. It's not worth much but as a study of the era it was made written in and that's about it.