Out July 2014 in UK
Paperback edition
Hollow
Earth introduced us
to twins Matt and Emily Calder who are gifted children with the ability of
stepping into their own paintings to explore and quite often to escape. In the first book Sandy and the children flee
from London and into the safe and protective arms of their grandfather Renard,
Sandy’s dad on the isle of Auchinmurn. The
twins learn some amazing facts, such as their Mum is an Animare and their Dad
was a guardian which gives the twins some amazing talents.
We learnt about their father
Malcolm who was obsessed by the Book of Beasts and the desire to free the
creatures locked in Hollow Earth and was bound into a painting when the twins
were young. We
learn that there are people after the twins in order to harness their powers in
order to free Malcolm from the paintings but they’re saved by a magical
creature – a white peryton – that is linked with the history of
Auchinmurn. But now Sandy has
disappeared...
In Bone Quill the story took us to the Middle Ages where we learned a
lot more about Solon and his role within the story. Solon’s world existed at the monastery on
Auchinmurn Isle, his mentor Animare Brother Renard had cracked, after releasing
the animation of the white peryton it came at a cost for the old monk, as his
imagination had fractured and he was forced to spend his days locked in a tower
for his own protection.
Solon suspects that
there are monks within the monastery that are working with the mysterious hooded
figure to find the Key to Hollow Earth.
The story flits as usual between Middle Ages to present day much like
the first but in Bone Quill much of the story lies within the history of
Auchinmurn monastery.
At the end of the book
much happened and people known from the first and second book were injured and
worse and although Sandy returned, Matt was still trapped in the painting with
the mysterious hooded figure.
The
Book of Beasts was
said to be the final book of the trilogy and I can’t wait to read it, and find
out if Matt makes it back, if the hooded figure finds the key and the location
of Hollow Earth or if Solon becomes the hero of the Middle Ages, or will we
have to wait for another to be written for all the questions to be answered as
I’m sure I heard mention of that last year.
Either way, I can’t wait for July.
These books may be for
children but they are exciting enough to captivate the ‘bigger kids’ audience too,
like myself.
If you want to wait for
the book to hit the shops, you can, or you can pre-order it on Amazon, link
below.
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