Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger [Review]

Title: Keeper of the Lost Cities [Keeper of the Lost Cities #1]

Author: Shannon Messenger

Genre: Middle grade, Fantasy, Fiction

Publisher: Aladdin

Publishing date: October 2nd, 2012

Pages: 496

Rating

★★★★✩

Hello everyone, I read this book last year, actually, I read the first 3 books of this series last year but

haven’t had time of reviewing them till now. Keeper of the Lost Cities is a middle grade, fantasy series, I found out about it last year during Comic Con, Shannon Messenger was signing books, but there was none in line, so I approached her and asked her which one was the first book, there was Keeper of the Lost Cities and the Sky Fall trilogy, they hadn’t the first book of the trilogy, so I bought this one. Messenger signed it before I paid for it and told me not to run away with it xD This book rested in my bookshelf for a while, I had no actual intention of reading it, but when I found out the fifth installment was going to be released and she would be in tour near my home, I decided to read it to know what the story was about… and I loved it.

             

            Keeper of the Lost Cities tells us the story of a 12 year old girl named Sophie Foster, she tries as hard as she can to live a normal life, but that is nearly impossible because she is super intelligent, she is in high school despite being 12, she has photographic memory and also, she can read people’s minds since she’s five. One day, during a field trip to a museum, a handsome and mysterious boy approaches her and she discovers he can read minds too. This boy, Fitz, helps her to discover the truth: Sophie is an elf, just like him. Fitz’s father has been looking for her to return to the Elvin world, where she belongs. At the same time, there are mysterious fires around San Diego, none knows who start them or why, but it is related to a secret organization named Black Swan, an organization that’s supposedly altering the peace of the Elvin world and that knows the origins and everything about Sophie.  

Curse of the Boggin - D.J MacHale [Review]

Title: Curse of the Boggin (The Library #1)

Author: D.J MacHale

Genre: Horror, paranormal, children

Publishing date: September, 2016

Pages: 256

Price: 11.38 USD

Buy it: Amazon

Rating:

★★★✩✩

I knew about this book at comic con, I was passing by and someone told me they were giving copies of it for free, so I picked up one despite not knowing what it was about.

            Curse of the Bogging tells us the story of a boy named Marcus O’Mara, a not so social kid that has a bad relationship with his parents. One day he sees a ghost that tries to give him a mysterious key, and since then he starts seeing frightening illusions that try to give him the same message “surrender they key.” The key opens the door that leads to a mysterious and supernatural library where there are books with the life stories of everyone, some of these stories are finished and some others are not. Marcus and his friends Lu and Theo will have to become library agents that will finish the unfinished stories to help the spirits to rest in peace, but before that happens, Marcus must protect the key and the library of a supernatural and evil entity that will endanger his life and the lives of his beloved ones.

 

Magyk - Angie Sage [Review]

Title: Magyk (Septimus Heap #1)

Author: Angie Sage

Genre: Fantasy, fiction, children.

Date published: March 1st, 2005

Price: $7.99 at Barnes & Noble

Buy: Amazon

Edition I read: Septimus (Spanish Edition)

Publisher: Montena

Translator: Teresa Campodrón

Year of publishing: 2006

Pages: 489

Rating:

★★★✩✩

Magyk is the first book in the Septimus Heap series written by Angie Sage. This book’s genre is fantasy and children fiction, its more focused toward children than young adults.

Sarah and Silas Heap.

      The seventh son of a seventh son is a person with extraordinary magical powers, in the Heap family a seventh son is born and is named Septimus, but the baby dies and the midwife goes away with the body. After that, Silas Heap finds a baby girl in the snow and he and his wife decide to adopt her to compensate their loss. Nine years go by, and they live their normal lives until the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Marcia Overstrand, appears and tells them their adoptive daughter is the princess and an assassin is trying to find her to kill her…. that is where all the adventures begin.