My November challenge is hotting up …
Thanks to Mr and Mrs F from Fennell Books for this
recommendation!
Have you ever considered the days between Christmas and New
Year? Those days when the excitement and
hustle and bustle of Christmas has passed and New Year has not yet arrived? According to Marcus Sedgwick’s book these are
dead days, the days between two major events where not much happens
normally.
For us these days are ones where the movies are reruns we’ve
seen many times before, our presents are put away, possibly broken, batteries
confiscated by irate parents. They are
the days of the end of year sales, where you’ve taken back that too big jumper,
or packed up that fugly ornament for the charity shop.
Not so for our young hero Boy and his new BFF Willow. They are attempting to save the life of Boy’s
master, Valerian, who is due to die at midnight on New Years Eve. You see he made a Faustian deal, and the deal
is almost at its end. Their quest is to
find a mysterious book that contains the secret to saving Valerian’s life,
during which they find themselves wanted as suspects in two murders, running
across country and through the underground catacombs and rivers of the city.
To tell you any more would be to ruin the story. The writing is suspenseful, and the plot and
characters engaging, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Book of Dead Days is followed by The Dark
Flight Down, and if I am understanding it right there will be no further books,
which makes a refreshing change to all those long long series!
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