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Joanne Harris
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Publisher | Doubleday Children | ||
ISBN | 9780857530813 | ||
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Ann
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Synopsis
The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie, a girl the same age as Maddy but brought up a world apart - literally, in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised. Now the Order is destroyed, Chaos is filling the vacuum left behind... and is breaching the everyday world.
A chilling prophecy from the Oracle. A conflict between two girls. And with just twelve days to stave off the Apocalypse, carnage is about to be unleashed . . .
Review
These are books aimed at the young adult market (with yet more girls as heroines - where are all the boys in this genre ?) based on the Norse sagas with an idiomatic northern language twist, but don't attempt this if you haven't read, and enjoyed, Runemarks, the first in the series !
Bearing in mind that I am somewhat older than the target audience, and haven't read Runemarks (and I did read the Foreword, which outlines the plot so far) I found that I got completely confused as to who was who, and why. Also this is a big book, and it is possible that these factors might combine to put off younger readers.
This one is about Maddy and the previous one was I think Maggie, or was it the other way round ? Liked Loki and the nagged Thor, but the constant reference to previous events, similarity of names, and frequent introduction of, to me, new characters meant I gave up about a third of the way through.
Shame because it's a rich mine of ideas and quite humorous, but sorry, you lost me !
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