The Amber Room (Wings, Wands & Weird Worlds Book 1)

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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. The Amber Room, by Tom Harris is sure to become a classic. This modern take on traditional fairytales begins with young North, a 14 year old boy suffering from kleptomania. He's been kicked out of his parent's house because of it, and is living with his older sister, India. Despised as a thief in general, North's family hates him; the only one who loves him is India, who works at a cinema, and is a dedicated college student.

North's life is complicated; the drive to steal things he has no use for rules his life, but India takes care of him as well as she can. One evening, while at the library studying, she falls from a fire escape and ends up in a coma. North goes the hospital to be with her, where he meets Dr.

Tan and Nurse Pat. Out of everyone else in his life, Nurse Pat and Dr.

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Tan are kind to him, despite knowing he compulsively steals things. Things look very bad for India, and North is desperate to save her. When he arrived at the scene of her accident he'd seen a shadow on the roof of the library and knew she had been pushed. He finds a note in his pocket from Dr.

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North takes it finding it opens directly into the Amber Room. The room really is amber, everything in it and the walls and the floors are amber. There are fairies in the door, which scream when it is opened. Tan tells North his gift for stealing is what will save his sister. He is to go to other worlds, inside a book and steal certain things for Dr. The good Doctor tells him what he must do and assures him that everything in the other world is real, so he runs the risk of dying there if things go awry. And, since North is headed to Fairy-land, things do not go as smoothly as one would hope.

First of all, North only steals things when he gets the overwhelming urge to do so, and he doesn't feel the slightest urge to steal when presented with the first item. North meets a fairy, Rosie Boots, who becomes entwined in his adventures. Nothing is what it seems in this series of amazing adventures. The characters are fully fleshed and colorful, without an excess of description. The dialogue is humorous, despite the serious nature of some of the events and I sat down and read it in one afternoon, nonstop.

This book leaves us hanging, but we are promised North and Rosie will return in the second book, the Amber Antidote. Despite the fact this book is a set up for the next book, I highly recommend it. It is a great read for young and old, despite the very occasional rough language.

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It may indeed be a young adult tale, but I found myself as engrossed as if it were a Harry Potter book! This place was abandoned…No, evacuated. Huge dunes with fields of bending blue grasses stretched across the horizon. The sand sparkled as if dotted with black diamonds, like a posh vanilla ice cream.

His armoured trainers sunk deep, leaving prints in the dunes, before the Shadows rounded on him, as if he had already strayed too far from their plan.



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A raindrop the size of a tennis ball landed on his head with a thump, forcing him to recoil. The Shadows fussed around him like he was a child, checking his hood and pulling at his sleeves, so they covered his hands. The unrelenting spheres of red water fizzed as they struck the sand, like aspirin dissolving in water. His eyes widened in shock as the skin of the faceless Shadows began to sizzle and burn. The chemical smell deepened, as the bruising rain forced him down on one knee, head bowed, holding his breath until it relented. Rosie had told him of this, acid rain, and it had left its mark on the Shadows, melting their hair and skin; leaving blistered pockmarks where eyes and mouths should have sat upon their faces.

What the hell is this thing made of? North flinched, fearing more rain, but this splash had been caused by something far different, and it sucked the very breath from his lungs. A huge amber whale breached and crashed down hard into the harbour waters. The slap of its mighty tail washed red waves across the decks of the multi-coloured fleet anchored in the harbour. We thought we could trust you!? His armoured trainers were so light and springy against the black wooden boards, that North reached the end of the jetty, as the giant surfaced, as if it had returned to bask in its deception.

The creature released a heavy sigh of air as if offended and spurted a fountain of frothy ambergris and water from its blowhole, which landed just short of the jetty. What does that even mean? The whale did not flee. It knew it did not stand a chance. The cluster of arrows struck their target, leaving an oily slick of amber on the crimson water. Find out more about Tom Harris and his writing over at his website, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

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