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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
The Chrysalis Key is the first book in The Travellers series. The tagline is The Breakfast Club meets Harry Potter, but darker. Well that is certainly true. The 5 main characters certainly fit The Breakfast Club model. A brain, a jock, a misfit, a geek and a Princess use a key to enter a portal to another world where they find a magical school and in one way or another unlock or discover a gift they didn’t know they had. I’ll pick up book 2 when it gets released and see how this all turns out.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
POV: you're a teenager in 1999, sitting in detention in your small town Queensland high school. BOOM - suddenly a super creepy faceless guy bursts in and kills your principal with a ball of magic. What?? The weird key in your pocket, that a shadowy figure gave you yesterday, is burning... leading you somewhere. Do you follow? Do you take the rag tag group of teens who were in detention with you?
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Do you have a hole in your soul that's shaped like The Books We're No Longer Allowed To Name? Do you like the sound of:
- Aussie setting
- discovering magic is real
- a magical key
- portals to other worlds
- awakening inner magic
- ragtag crew thrown together by circumstance
- creepy bad guy who steals children
- magical schools
- a family curse
... and that's honestly just scratching the surface of this awesome story?!
I absolutely loved this book! As someone who WAS a teen in 1999, I enjoyed the setting although I'd say there wasn't a super strong sense of the time - mainly just that they couldn't text each other and there's no social media, so organising their antics falls to frantic bike rides and dialling home phones. I kind of enjoyed the childhood vibe that gave the book.
Although it's billed as YA, I'd say it read around the same level as Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, which is more upper middle grade. The story is told from the 5 perspectives of the teens in detention that fateful day. It's definitely a plot-based story with a good pace, but there is also great character development. I really enjoyed getting to know these characters, all with their unique backstories and motivations, and watching the dynamics between them develop.
There is no romance - this is a true, magical teen adventure story.
Although a few typos slipped through the cracks, which I'm usually pretty picky about, this was overall so well written that I found them easy to overlook. I loved the little story-relevant images at the top of each chapter, a really cool detail.
I loved this world, I loved the characters, I loved the story, I loved pretty much every single thing about this book and I was kind of devo when it was over. I can't wait for book two!!
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Do you have a hole in your soul that's shaped like The Books We're No Longer Allowed To Name? Do you like the sound of:
- Aussie setting
- discovering magic is real
- a magical key
- portals to other worlds
- awakening inner magic
- ragtag crew thrown together by circumstance
- creepy bad guy who steals children
- magical schools
- a family curse
... and that's honestly just scratching the surface of this awesome story?!
I absolutely loved this book! As someone who WAS a teen in 1999, I enjoyed the setting although I'd say there wasn't a super strong sense of the time - mainly just that they couldn't text each other and there's no social media, so organising their antics falls to frantic bike rides and dialling home phones. I kind of enjoyed the childhood vibe that gave the book.
Although it's billed as YA, I'd say it read around the same level as Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, which is more upper middle grade. The story is told from the 5 perspectives of the teens in detention that fateful day. It's definitely a plot-based story with a good pace, but there is also great character development. I really enjoyed getting to know these characters, all with their unique backstories and motivations, and watching the dynamics between them develop.
There is no romance - this is a true, magical teen adventure story.
Although a few typos slipped through the cracks, which I'm usually pretty picky about, this was overall so well written that I found them easy to overlook. I loved the little story-relevant images at the top of each chapter, a really cool detail.
I loved this world, I loved the characters, I loved the story, I loved pretty much every single thing about this book and I was kind of devo when it was over. I can't wait for book two!!