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(More customer reviews)I fell hard for N.D. Wilson's 100 Cupboards trilogy a year or so ago, and then I read Leepike Ridge, which was possibly even better. So I was eager to get my hands on the first book in his new series.
If Rick Riordan's series were as dark as the later Harry Potter books, they might be something like N.D. Wilson's books, especially this series launch. In other words, boys who are into action movies and video games will like this stuff. However, the books aren't just for reluctant readers: they're for any major fantasy fan, and probably for you dystopian fans, too. The Dragon's Tooth is Harry Potter meets film noir--a little edgy, kind of gritty. And fast paced, too!
Cyrus Smith and his older sister and brother live in a run-down motel called the Archer because of the sign out front showing a lady with a bow and arrow. The sign used to be lit up, and the motel used to have guests. Now, as Wilson puts it, "To a traveler's eyes, the motel is dead and useless, a roadside tragedy, like the remains of some unfortunate animal in a ditch--glimpsed, mourned, and forgotten before the next bend in the road. But to the lean boy with the dark skin and the black hair struggling in the thick brush behind the pool, the motel is alive, and it is home."
Soon Cyrus has an encounter with a strange old man named Billy Skelton who lights up the long-dark archer, nearly zapping the boy as he apparently calls down lightning. The one-and-only guest in the hotel, Mrs. Eldredge, pitches a fit when the Smiths let the old man stay--and Skelton insists on staying in Cyrus's very own room. After the visitor passes along a couple of his secrets to Cyrus and his sister Antigone everything really goes haywire, leaving Skelton dead and an uber-creepy guy named Maxi determined to take the treasure that was left in Cyrus's keeping.
Cyrus and Antigone must go on the run. Following a car chase in a limo, bullets flying, they end up at Hogwarts.
Just kidding: the place they land is called Ashtown. It's a training academy and headquarters for a group of mysterious guardians, but most of them are decidedly unfriendly to the Smith siblings. And you won't believe where these two kids are expected to sleep! Now they must outwit their enemies at Ashtown, and Maxi is still after Cyrus and the secret he carries....
You can practically feel the spider venom in this new series starter from N.D. Wilson!
Note for Worried Parents: The Dragon's Tooth has a fairly high level of violence and suspense. I recommend it for kids (especially boys) 10 and up, or younger kids who are comfortable with teen-level video and movie violence.
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For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with their older brother, Daniel. Nothing ever seems to happen. Then a strange old man with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room.Less than 24 hours later, the old man is dead. The motel has burned, and Daniel is missing. And Cyrus and Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of explorers who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the world for millennia. N. D. Wilson, author of Leepike Ridge and 100 Cupboards, returns with an imagination-capturing adventure that inventively combines the contemporary and the legendary.
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