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Synopsis
Robin Jarvis’s latest creation is a world set in an alternate past – in a genre that can only be described as Scyence Fyctione! This strangely familiar Britain consists of ninety-three individual ‘blessed isles’ floating in the deep darkness and the story begins in December in the Gloriana Kalendar, when Elizabeth Tudor has reigned for one hundred and seventy-eight years. Into this world – a place with no animals and little technology – comes a stranger, Brindle. No one knows where he’s from, or how he’s arrived. But he brings strange implements and practices, and he’s about to change things forever…
Is Deathscent appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
Middle grade fantasy with imaginative alternate history setting where animals don't exist and Britain floats as separate islands. Mild adventure peril suitable for upper elementary readers.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language.
Who'll love this
A mysterious stranger arrives in a bizarre world where Queen Elizabeth has ruled for 178 years and animals don't exist, bringing secrets that will change everything.