Silver City

Even better than the first book! After reading The Silver Child, I rushed straight to the library to get the Silver City. I was a bit apprehensive because sometimes the first book in a series is the best one, and the quality kind of peters out as the series continues. Not the case with The Silver Sequence! The first book raised many questions in my mind, and the Silver City managed to both answer some of my questions and raise new ones. The book contains a wonderful mixture of excitement, intrigue, mystery, horror (but not too much), and definitely adventure. Cliff McNish is an amazing author whose writing creates a detailed picture of what is happening in the story. I have nothing but praise for this author and his amazing series!

I loved this book! McNish is able to build so much tension and so much horror that his characters seem almost myth-like as they attempt their many and varied tasks in seeking to protect their world from a horror-filled end. My favorite character is Thomas, whose journey in book one to becoming a selfless and stunningly capable leader shows its fruition here. In Silver City, he is a single-minded powerhouse of determination and strength, even when tested to the outer limits of human ability. I was literally on the edge of my seat, breathless to find out what would happen. In no way did the climax disappoint, nor did Thomas fail to evidence even more growth in the end. And, as Helen says, since Thomas' role in the final task will be even more pivotal, I cannot *wait* to read that book!

The Silver City is a great book! It is a good book for people who like adventure and a little bit of horror. The book can be a little hard at first but you can have so much fun reading it will get really easy. This is a book that you can visualize what is going on in the book. I think this is a book that people can read and have fun at the same time!

In this second book of the Silver Sequence Cliff McNish continues his bizarre tale of mutated children trying to save the world from the evil "roar". If this sounds strange, wait 'til you read the book! I read this book aloud to my nine- and ten-year-old children and it was a pleasure to find a book that intrigued me as much as it did them. We found the book to be disturbing, weird, fantastic, wonderful, exciting and strange, all at the same time. You won't have ever read a book like this before. I might put a small caution not to give this book to a child that is easily put off or scared by the bizarre (the children mutate into disturbing but necessary forms, for example). I think tweens and teens might be best suited for the subject matter of this book. I felt that my reading it to my children helped mitigate some of the stranger elements that they might have found too disturbing. But if you have an avid reader or one who isn't intrigued by the status quo of children's books, this is an excellent choice! To make sure, perhaps a quick read of the first chapter would help you make up your mind as the book gets quirky very quickly.