I liked Alex as a character and wanted to know more about his illness. The book was fast-paced and easy to read. There is a lot of mystery in here, some creepy parts, some good action, and some magic. I really enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I was going to. Now strange things are happening all over the world and Alex’s mom has disappeared. Unfortunately she unlocks a doorway that does more than save Alex’s life. That’s when his mom, who is an Egyptologist, uses one of the Lost Spells from the Book of the Dead to save him. After a horrible attack the doctors are worried he won’t recover. There are five books planned for this series and they will all be written by Northrop.Įleven year old Alex has suffered from sickness his whole life and it’s getting worse. However, I kept picking this book up and looking at it and finally decided to get it when I saw it at my son’s book fair at school. I have read some of the Spirit Animals books and they weren’t my favorite. This series is “designed” by the same people who worked on the Infinity Ring series and the Spirit Animals series. This is the first book in the Tombquest series. With the tenuous balance of the planets deeply intertwined with her brothers' survival, just how much is Liddi willing to sacrifice to bring them back? Haunting and mesmerizing, this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans fuses all the heart of the classic tale with a stunning, imaginative world in which a star-crossed family fights for its very survival.Stand Alone or Series: 1st book in the Tombquest series But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true.

And when their captor implants a device in Liddi's vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word, and her brothers are dead.ĭesperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home - a handsome dignitary named Tiav. Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. So when a group of men shows up at her house uninvited, she assumes it's just the usual media-grubs.

But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it's hard to escape it. Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight.

Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis