#LAYERS OF FEAR FURBOY SERIES#
I thoroughly enjoyed Gods and Warriors which was released last year, kick-starting this series of the same name, and I remember saying in my review (which can be found here) that it felt very much a world building book that was setting things out nicely for the series to build upon these foundations and grow, and flourish. That special day that comes but once a year and it brings with it a sense of wonder, amazement, excitement and a sliver of fear at what might happen next to the characters you're coming to love. The arrival of a new Michelle Paver book is always a special event for me. It is this attention to detail - innovative storytelling and clean grammatical style that has assured her popularity and success, in my opinion.Īh. The authors’ story telling maybe a blend of fantasy and adventure, however, the background to the narrative is facts based archaeology of the Greek Bronze Age and its belief systems of that time frame. Her well rounded stalwart characters always do the right thing, helped by generous helping of flukes and a succession of eleventh-hour escapes. While a number of other fashionable children's authors imagine a future regularly described in dystopian terms, Paver’s work looks backwards more with a positive eye to the past. This volume does give some recap of book one for readers who haven't read it. However, there is plenty of misfortune heading towards him in the books to come. With the fore telling of a prophecy, Hylas manages against the odds to survive book one. Other characters featured in the plot, of non-human variety are a lion cub, a falcon and a dolphin.īook 2 shows our hero and co having to thwart the Crows, an evil family that uses slaves labour to run its copper mining operation – this dreadful enterprise is run in appalling settings.
He also has a potent ally in the form Pirra the stubborn daughter of an Egyptian priestess, the scene is set during the Bronze Age. Her new series of books tells the narrative of Hylas, a 12-year-old goatherd, whose adventures take him to Ancient Crete and Ancient Egypt. This a second offering, from what is to be a five-part series mixing magic with ritual from Michelle Paver.
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