Seven Sorcerers
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Publisher Description
Nin had never liked Wednesdays, but this one took the biscuit. On this Wednesday she woke up to find that it was raining buckets and that her brother had ceased to exist.
Nin realizes she is the only person to remember Toby because whoever took him is about to make her disappear too. Enter Skerridge the Bogeyman, who steals kids for Mr. Strood. With his spindle, he draws all memories of Nin out of her mother's head. She escapes to the Drift, a land filled with the fabulous and the dreadful. What is the sorcerers' secret and will Nin and Toby escape their fate at the House of Strood?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With her debut novel, published in England in 2009, King demonstrates the whimsy, melancholy, and matter-of-fact coping with horror that characterizes classic British children's literature. Nineveh "Nin" Redstone is 11 years old and resolutely ordinary. Her four-year-old brother is nothing but a nuisance until the awful Wednesday when she wakes up and he's gone. Worse, no one but Nin remembers he exists. It's left to her to reclaim him from Skerridge (a bogeyman) and the Terrible House of Strood. A young vagabond, Jonas, fortuitously offers his assistance in navigating the Drift, a parallel world where the Fabulous ("Faeries and worse. Giants, dragons, elves, the lot") live. But the magic that sustains the Fabulous is dying, and most of what is left is as terrible as the bogeyman "the essence of dread and desire made real." There are also unpredictable traces of the seven vanished sorcerers, whose lingering magic changes the course of Nin's adventure. The telling is energetic and absorbing; only the abrupt ending detracts slightly. King has already published a sequel in the U.K., and readers stateside ought to be eager for it. Ages 8 12.
