Australian Writers
Garth Nix and Sean
Williams
Missing, Presumed Evil
Trouble Twisters
Series Number 4
Allen & Unwin, 2014 $24.00pb 342pp
ISBN 978 1 7423 7401 7
Themes: Family/ Fantasy/ Friendship/ Good v
evil/ Series/ Twins
The magical twins, Jack and Jaide have faced The
Evil before but even they, with all their experience (in the first three books)
of true scariness could not have imagined what is to come! I am always
surprised to find that writers, exploring such well worn pathways as good versus evil and the end of the world are able to infuse
freshness and new twists to the old story and make us read it as though for the
first time – especially when tempered with the well-known, sometimes OTT humour of this duo. Readers don’t have to have read the
first books in this series but it will make it a more rounded experience if
they have. The Trouble Twister series
have been given (in my opinion) particularly enticing jackets, which may act as
a lure to more reluctant readers although the first two chapters require quite
a bit of concentration – it seems to become much easier reading after that.
Year 5 up/ Age 9 up
My apologies this has been sitting
on my desk for a couple of months...
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