I felt like I knew what they looked like and what they were doing, but a lot of their personality felt missing. This wasn’t a problem, but because of this I never really felt I got to know Lara and the others that much. A lot happens in the story and there is a very fast pace to the entire tale. For some reason I just couldn’t connect with Lara and the other characters all that much. He’s the first character I felt I really got to know and connected with and this was probably because a little more time was spend showing his life and what was happening to him. I have to say that I did like the character Double Eight. As the story moves forward we get to know Lara, her friend Joe and a couple of witches.

I did feel a disconnect with some of the story as a result. The writing style is interesting, it moved the story along well and quickly, but at times it didn’t quite gel for me with descriptions shorter than I’d like (and I’m not a fan of long descriptions), and action switching too fast for me to keep up. It did lead to a little bit of confusion for me at the start. I’d only just read and understood what was happening with one character before the next scene was unfolding, and then the next. I have to admit that I felt the action switched between locations and characters too quickly at first. The novel takes on a fast pace as I said, a lot happens, especially in the firt chapters as the action switches between different characters and scenes. We’re introduced to a lot of different charcters right away and the first chapter, about Shadow Jack immediately made me want to read this as he’s definitely a brilliantly dark and eerie character. This feels like such a well thought out story with a lot happening throughout the book. ©The Strawberry Post – Look at the beautiful shiny cover! And someone very dangerous is lurking in the sewers, preying on toshers like Lara. But recently strange things are starting to happen in the Silver Kingdom where she lives, a strange dark magic is about to be released. ‘Lara’ is a tosher, someone who spends her days searching beneath the city, in the sewers for hidden treasures that wash up there. Review: This is an interesting tale with a well thought out plot, but for some reason I struggled to connect with the characters and as a result I just couldn’t enjoy the story as much as I had wanted to.

*Free copy provided by publisher for review… But when she stumbles upon a mysterious little box in the sewers, Lara finds herself catapulted into a world of wild magic – facing adventure, mortal dangerand a man who casts no shadow. In a city where emotionless White Witches march through the streets and fear of Hag magic is rife, Lara keeps her head down. Genre: Older children’s/middle grade fiction, Fantasyĭescription: THE EVERNIGHT HAS BEEN UNLEASHED…Īs far back as she can remember Larabella Fox has scraped together a living by treasure-hunting in the sewers.

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