" A boy named george knocks a head of a dragon statue and gargoles start chasing after him. I may return to it another time, but just have too many other things I'd like to read to waste my time with something I'm not in love with. Just wasn't interesting for me, even though I usually like these young adult type of books. I'd recommend giving it a go if you're a fantasy fan or a fan of Dale. Dale does an excellent job reading though and overall a pretty good book. I still enjoyed the story and following Charlie as he meets all kinds of interesting statues and other glints, but it wasn't as good as I was hoping. I am a big fan of Jim Dale as a reader, but something about this book wasn't as exciting as the other books I've listened to by him. " Surprisingly enough, I couldn't really get into this book like I expected I would. " For whatever reason, I couldn't get into the book.
The idea of statues that have a life of their own, with a whole world of their own superimposed on the world we know, is a fascinating one. "Once this book found its stride, it was great! London has so much history that it begs to have stories like this written. And this is just the beginning as the statues of London awake.
Now that George has disturbed the fragile truce between the warring statues of London, he is forced into a race for survival where nothing is what it seems and and it's never clear who to trust. When George breaks the head from a stone dragon he awakes an ancient power that has been dormant for centuries. Twelve-year-old George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living.
This adventure exposes forces long-layered in the fabric of London.When statues start coming to life, 12 year old George Chapman discovers that there are many layers to London, all intertwined in a timeless battle between those with souls and those withoutĪ city has many lives and layers. The rest of London is oblivious to their plight. The World War One gunner offers protection of sorts and the wisdom of the Sphinx is legendary but George and his companion Edie are trapped in a world of danger and they are quite alone. And this is just the beginning! The taints and spits - statues with opposing natures - are warring forces, wreaking deadly havoc on the city landscape. This prehistoric beast, sentry-still for centuries, hunts him down with a terrifying wrath. Deep in the city something had been woken, so old that people had been walking past it for centuries without giving it a second look! When George breaks the dragon's head outside the Natural History Museum he awakes an ancient power.
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