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Molly Travers doesn’t like living in a small country town. Not only is she bullied at school, but she misses her friends back in the city. When she meets Only-By-Darkness, a wood sprite who has lived in a nearby forest for hundreds of years, they strike up an unusual friendship.But soon they learn a terrible truth: the forest is to be cut down to make way for a new housing estate. The sprite and all the animals will lose their homes.Can Molly and Only-By-Darkness work together to save the forest, when they both have very different ideas of how to go about it? With some important people in the town against them, will they go too far in their efforts to win?
This was a fun read, easy enough to pick up, a little harder to put down. The relationship between the main character and the sprite was pleasantly complex for a children’s book, but it still had the necessary elements for a suitable middle grade read.
Emily Branwell wakes up one morning with a hangover and finds her horoscope is astoundingly accurate, sausages keep appearing out of nowhere all around her, and she can walk through walls. That is confusing enough, but when a huge, threatening shadow appears in the sky, Emily must solve the riddle of her rapidly disintegrating world before reality itself collapses. Maybe next time she’ll count her drinks.Plato’s Cave takes a humorous look at humanity’s search for truth and the meaning of existence through the eyes of someone who wishes the Universe would just stop bothering her.
This is an excellent, highly imaginative story you can just read and enjoy. You could also read it again and again and delve deeper into Plato, I suspect. I liked the witty, irreverent style of storytelling the author used, even apologetic about getting too philosophical or scientific in places. It kept things light and enjoyable and kept the story powering along. Terrific characters, especially the heroine. The sausages... classic!!
Plato’s Cave is quite a ride, cosmically speaking, loaded both with science and comic adventure fiction, poking fun at mysticism, science, humanity in general and the lineup of characters in the story in particular. Our world and existence are ultimately compared with living in Plato’s Cave, cosmologically speaking, but, never mind, if you enjoy a bit of absurdist, light but profound comic science fiction and philosophy, then this story will have just the right mix for you. Young Adult through to crusty old adult.
This story appealed to my sense of humor. There were a lot of sausages appearing in this book. Every time the writer mentioned sausages it got me laughing more. A fast moving easy to read novel, with likeable interesting characters. Some crazy things were happening, the author had me wondering how it was all going to end and I was not disappointed. A great plot, and well written. I enjoyed it a lot.
Times are tough for the old gods. The world has left most of them behind and only a few now remain: the Fallen Gods, still clinging to hopes of return as legitimate deities.
Dionysus, god of wine, theatre and ritualistic madness, has taken human form and runs both a disreputable music hall and a more legitimate regular theatre in Victorian Era London. All he wants is fit in with the times and lead a quiet and obscure existence, assisted by his loyal maenads, Mags and Leah.
But to his dismay other forgotten gods, and a tribe of rakshasa demons, wish to conquer the world for their own. Dionysus and his followers must oppose their various attempts to enslave humanity, and still get the curtain up on time.
Fallen Gods Act I is a series of four linked novellas comprising the following stories:
The Resurrection Box
Susannah
The Moonsnatcher
Mister Foxwood’s Holiday