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Fantasy Book Review: Who is Charlie Keeper? by Marcus Alexander
‘Who is Charlie Keeper?’ is the shockingly paced fantasy novel that tells the tale of Charlie, an iron-willed, twelve year old girl suffering an unjust and unhappy fate. Forced to flee her home in the gloomy, rain-drenched landscape of London by a bloodthirsty and terrifying new foe, she escapes to the vibrant, parallel land of Bellania with nothing more than her common sense and razor-sharp wits to keep her safe. Bellania, a land of myth, magic and marauding giants with bad attitude and poor anger management.
Read the full Who is Charlie Keeper? book review
This book is a must read, the perfect mixture of a cracking story and beautiful illustrations. The best news of all is that it is only the first book in a proposed trilogy. If my glowing review is not enough for you then go to Amazon and read what others have to say – here are just a few examples – “very much alive”, “adorably feisty heroine”, “couldn’t read it quick enough, unbelievably good”, “a serious A-list book”, “beautifully conceived characters and charm”. In fact I will re-use an Amazon reviewer’s simple, yet effective opening sentence to close this review – “Just buy the god damn book!”
Marcus Alexander has a fondness for causing mischief, knows how to run really, really fast when he’s in trouble and knows how to duck out of sight when someone points the long, bony finger of blame.
Posted: January 28th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Fantasy Book Review
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