The Moon Stealers and the Quest for the Silver Bough by Tim FlanaganMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book jumps back and forth between MI6 and their investigation and the kids trying to find Peter with the help of an unexpected ally. My thoughts were all over the place while reading, and I wanted to yell at the characters multiple times. I felt kind of like a parent thinking, “Don’t trust him. Don’t touch that. That guy is lying.”
At first, the journey the kids were taking stressed me out, because they decided to completely trust some random person, and not only talk to him, but straight up leave with him. True, he does tell the kids who he is, but his story sounds completely made up. They do question it for a minute, but then decide to go with it, without ever telling their parents that they are going anywhere. That is one of the things I do wonder about, have the parents not realized that their kids have been missing for days now? Maybe so much has happened around town that they are focusing on other things? I hope by the end of the series there is a reaction from the parents.
Now that I’m not as worried about the kids, the adults are stressing me out. At the very beginning, Steven is told to not trust what he is told by the people that send him to the site of the meteor landing. While he wants to believe that they are not really people to watch out for, events keep happening that make him question their true motives and leave him with few people he feels he can really turn to.
I enjoyed seeing the story develop. It wasn’t a huge event from the start, you can see how the little things grew into something out of control. The reader is taken on the journey from the very beginning, and not just dropped down in the middle of the action wondering what led up to this point.
I’m not big on sci-fi, but this book has so much going on that it wasn’t a problem for me.
Author: Tim Flanagan
Publisher: Createspace
Publication Date: June 23rd 2012
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