The Double-Edged Sword by Sarah Silverwood
Book One of The Nowhere Chronicles. Orion, 2010. ISBN: 978-0575095793.
Recommended. I spent a nail biting two days reading this enthralling
book. I was hardly able to put it down. It is a magical story
supporting the many-universe theory that shows up in most fantasy books
and containing believable characters. The use of day to day situations
in this book authenticates the story line. The story starts in London,
Somewhere, in twenty-ten and follows the first few days of Finmere
Tingewick Smith's sixteenth year. Knotted mysteries have surrounded Fin
as long as he could remember, he was an orphan left on the second step
of the Old Bailey. It's time for those knots to be untangled, both in
The Somewhere and The Nowhere. With the help of his friends they fight
to save the retired Knights of Nowhere.
I'm sure you'll find this book just as compelling as I did. I would
highly recommend it for any young adults who love a complicated plot
and love a read that keeps them guessing right up to the end. The
Double Edged-Sword is one of those books youll just keep reading
again
and again. I'm happy to say that in a few months the second instalment,
The Traitor's Gate, will be available sometime in 2011.
(Kayla, age 14)