Silver World

The ferocious predator called the Roar has reached Earth. Now the children of Coldharbour will see if they are indeed ready to face this danger. Helen is able to probe the Roar's mind, to an attempt to find secrets. Emily and Freda--the insect girls--go to great lengths to help the Protector. Jenny turns into a terrifying weapon. Milo uses his silver wings against a shower of poison. And the others all band together, waiting for the arrival of the Roar and her newborns who are not only famished but have murder on their minds. SILVER WORLD is the third book in the Silver Sequence. I'd recommend reading the first book to get a better understanding of the story. Cliff McNish does a great job creating a world where the children develop super human skills in order to defend the world as they know it.

In the third and final book of the Silver Sequence, the Roar finally arrives at our world. Milo is the first line of the Earth's defence against her and sheltered by his wings, Helen probes the mind of the Roar, desperate to find a weakness that will allow the children to be victorious in their battle against her. Meanwhile the twins, Emily and Freda, together with a large group of other children touched by Thomas' beauty, are deep below the sea, struggling to free the Protector, which is half-blind and desperately weak following its last battle with the Roar and her offspring, Carnac. Whilst the Roar is approaching from space, Carnac is crawling from the depths of the Earth, intending to assist his mother in a two-pronged attack. Only the 200 children, known as the Unearthers, who are led by Tanni, stand in his way. And all this time, little Jenny is calling the birds, insects and animals of the world to her to help the children defend Earth. The children's parents remain outside Coldharbour, kept out by an invisible barrier that no one over the age of 18 can pass. Then Thomas discovers that Jenny can use his beauty to become a weapon against the Roar, and it becomes even more urgent that Helen find the Roar's weaknesses, if they are to overcome her. This is an astonishing series. McNish takes some apparently ordinary children and makes them extraordinary and then gives them a Herculean task that it's never certain they will accomplish.