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Terra Electrica The Guardians of the North by Antonia Maxwell - Review and Blog Tour

Monday, July 15, 2024


Hello and welcome to my blog for my stop on the tour for Terra Electrica The Guardians of the North by Antonia Maxwell! It is a pleasure to welcome you here. Please do have a click around and read some of my other posts. 

I love good midde grade so I signed up for this tour straight away, and I'm glad to say that it was so worth it because I really liked the book. It felt like it really fitted into the sort of epic storytelling that we all remember from our childhoods. But it's also a really modern story with issues like climate change at its forefront, which I liked too. I think kids from around aged ten would like it. 

So the protagonist of the story is Mani. She's twelve. She lives in the Arctic I think, only this is in the future where all the ice caps have melted. Her mother has died. She and her dad were living in a cave but her dad went out to find food. He was an elder in their community, but now everyone else is dead. They had some kind of sickness caused by electricity and died. The cave was safe, but they needed food, so Mani's dad set out. He said he would be back in eight days, but now it's been twenty nine days and Mani is starving. 

So she heads to the research station not too far away and there she meets Leo. He is a scientist and he gives Mani food. He has the sickness too - she can tell by the flashes of electricity in his eyes. He wants them to set out to The Ark, which is the company that he works for. He is certain that they will have a cure for the sickness, and he tells Mani that her dad is probably there too. So they set off together on an epic adventure. 

It is like a Hobbit adventure for sure, it has all the hallmarks and I really liked it. I liked what happened along the way. Mani also has a mask that lived above her bed, but she wasn't old enough to be told about it. But now she has started to use it, and she explores magical worlds within it. 

I'm giving this four out of five and I would definitely be interested in reading the next in the series. 

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