Tethers (The Tethers Trilogy #1) by Jack Croxall
Publication Date: February 5th 2013
Genre: Young Adult Victorian Fantasy
Pages: 228
~Summary~
In the wake of a cold Victorian winter, Karl Scheffer and Esther Emerson discover an anonymous journal filled with strange passages and bizarre scribblings.
The journal soon draws them into a covert and sinister conspiracy, a conspiracy centred around an otherworldly artefact with the power to change everything …
Karl and Esther have spent almost every day of their thirteen years in the quiet market town of Shraye. Stifled by their rural surroundings and frustrated by their unfulfilled ambitions, they find the allure of the journal’s mysterious pages impossible to ignore. The book seems to be beckoning them away from Shraye, away from their homes and towards the coast where an unsolved disappearance has set in motion a dark chain of events.
The voyage the teenagers soon find themselves undertaking is one of desperate importance and true peril; it will change the way they see the world, and each other, forever.
The journal soon draws them into a covert and sinister conspiracy, a conspiracy centred around an otherworldly artefact with the power to change everything …
Karl and Esther have spent almost every day of their thirteen years in the quiet market town of Shraye. Stifled by their rural surroundings and frustrated by their unfulfilled ambitions, they find the allure of the journal’s mysterious pages impossible to ignore. The book seems to be beckoning them away from Shraye, away from their homes and towards the coast where an unsolved disappearance has set in motion a dark chain of events.
The voyage the teenagers soon find themselves undertaking is one of desperate importance and true peril; it will change the way they see the world, and each other, forever.
Reviewers’ Comments:
Reminiscent of the exploration stories of Enid Blyton and Arthur Ransome,
the kids find themselves on a metaphorical rollercoaster cart racing down the
tracks. And the brakes are off. Sword fights, pistols, unfortunate deaths and
curious objects, the plot thickens with every twist and turn. Suddenly Blyton
meets H.G. Wells, and a brilliantly paced steampunk tale of machinery and
science-based magic unfolds. (MuggleNet)
Somewhere between Pullman's Sally Lockhart
mysteries and Moonfleet sits Tethers, a rip-roaring debut novel. Sharply
written with well observed characters that you can root for, Tethers has you
turning pages faster that Ronald MacDonald can throw out burgers. (Sharon Sant – author of the Sky Song trilogy)
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