Pages: 411
Rating: 10/10
Main Conflict: Keladry of Mindelan has finally become a knight, at about the same time war has been declared with Scanra. When she became a knight, she had a vision in the Chamber of the Ordeal, a room which a squire must sit in a day to become a knight. In this vision she has seen that it was her destiny to go after a man who used the souls of children to make monstrous killing devices. But she has been assigned to command a refugee camp, which will keep her from finding the evil mage.
Best Part: When Kel attacks the evil mage's stronghold with only 15 soldiers and 15 knights. After sneaking in, they blockade the barracks and kill anybody who comes out. Then Kel confronts Blayce, the mage, and Stenmun, his servant.
Sunday, 30 March 2008
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Pages: 345
Rating: 8/10
Main Conflict: After their parents died, Prosper and Bo were adopted by their unkind aunt and uncle, the Hartliebs. But they soon escape and make it to Venice, the city their mother told them so much about. They are taken under the wing of a mysterious 13 year old, Scipio, or the Thief Lord. Feeling safe with the Thief Lord and the other children under his wing, they have their peace shattered when the Hartliebs hire a detective, Victor Getz to find them. But Scipio also has a deep secret that, when found out could break up the whole gang.
Best Part: When the kids go to rob the house of Ida Spavento, a kind hearted noble. After threatening the kids with an old hunting rifle, she tells them to sit down and tell her what they were trying to steal. In the end she gives them what they want.
Rating: 8/10
Main Conflict: After their parents died, Prosper and Bo were adopted by their unkind aunt and uncle, the Hartliebs. But they soon escape and make it to Venice, the city their mother told them so much about. They are taken under the wing of a mysterious 13 year old, Scipio, or the Thief Lord. Feeling safe with the Thief Lord and the other children under his wing, they have their peace shattered when the Hartliebs hire a detective, Victor Getz to find them. But Scipio also has a deep secret that, when found out could break up the whole gang.
Best Part: When the kids go to rob the house of Ida Spavento, a kind hearted noble. After threatening the kids with an old hunting rifle, she tells them to sit down and tell her what they were trying to steal. In the end she gives them what they want.
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
Pages: 278
Rating: 10/10
Main Conflict: Tiffany Aching has left her home in the Chalk to go and learn how to be a witch. Unfortunately, she is meanwhile pursued by a hiver, an unkillable monster. The Hiver possesses her and she must learn how to fight off and defeat the hiver.
Best Part: When Tiffany and one of her friends, a Wee Free Man by the name of Rob Anybody, travel to the land of the dead. They have a rather interesting conversation with Death, and then return to the Land of the Living.
Rating: 10/10
Main Conflict: Tiffany Aching has left her home in the Chalk to go and learn how to be a witch. Unfortunately, she is meanwhile pursued by a hiver, an unkillable monster. The Hiver possesses her and she must learn how to fight off and defeat the hiver.
Best Part: When Tiffany and one of her friends, a Wee Free Man by the name of Rob Anybody, travel to the land of the dead. They have a rather interesting conversation with Death, and then return to the Land of the Living.
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