Setting is one of the key elements that keeps me interested in a story, and the setting here is brilliant. I love both the London scenes and the Scottish isles scenes. The descriptions of the abbey and the various coves helped me visualize what the characters see. I easily saw myself among the...
Twelve-year-old twins Matt and Emily share a special bond, a magical one where what they draw comes to life – at least as long as they are in the same room. Their precociousness has gotten them into trouble and with their mother they have fled to an island off the coast of Scotland. Temporarily s...
Second volume of Barrowman's memoirs, written with his sister Carole Barrowman. While the first volume was a largely chronological memoir of his life so far, this volume is a selection of stories arranged more by theme than by time, and including a lot of material in direct response to questions ...
So this book gets 3 stars instead of 4 because it had a typical series cliff hanger ending with no closure. I guess I didn't mind the cliff hanger in the first book because there was closure -- here there obviously needs to be another story. It also took me longer to get into but I think that i...
The sequel to Hollow Earth is enrapturing from the start, and we soon figure out that there is a whole lot more to this story than first thought. Solon's story, dated in the middle ages, finally begins to make sense when we realise that Matt and Emily have one amazing animare power fairly early o...
‘Isn’t that what we’ve been tasked to monitor?’ ‘True. It’s definitely a pattern, but what the pattern means? I’ve no clue,’ replied Eva, making no eye contact at al with Vlad. ‘And do we real y know what we’ve been tasked to do? I mean we never get a straight answer from Cash, and if Dana knows,...