Reviews and Views

 The Castle of Llyr The story continues the adventures of Taran "Assistant Pig-Keeper, primarily on the Isle of Mona west of Prydain, far from the forces of Arawn, Lord of Death. Princess Eilonwy 2 faces the unavoidable (and in her view unnecessary) ordeal of becoming a young lady", says Alexander. Taran joins her escort to a royal court where she will continue her education, near to her ancestral home. Soon after arrival, she is kidnapped for the sorceress Achren. Taran and companions including Prince Rhun set out to rescue her. Will they rescue her or will the evil sorceress Achren keep hold of her? You will have to read the book to find out! In my opinion, this book fills some gaps in Princess Eilwonys character as we finally find out where her ancestral home and more Out of 10, I would rate this book as a solid 8.

 The Black Cauldron The Black Cauldron is the second book in the Chronicles of Prydain series and this is the book which really starts to kick things off. Firstly, Taran joins the quest to capture the eponymous magical cauldron from Arawn D eath-Lord. Who is using it to make huge armies of undead, zombie-like soldiers. After Arawn's 1st army is defeated and the death of his warlord, The Horned King, which ended the Book of Three. Prince Gwydion has called his allies to a council hosted by Dallben, one of Taran's guardians. Men are disappearing and more and more of the undead-Cauldron Born have joined forces with Arawn the Death Lord.  Will they succeed? who knows? find out next time when I do a review on the 3rd instalment of this series. Out of 10 stars, I would rate this book as a 9.5 due to it being very captivating and you just get entranced by the style of writing and tone of the language.              

Erebus, The story of a ship was written by Michael Palin who brought the story of the formerly lost ship back to life. After the ship was rediscovered in 2014 he wrote this book about the disappearance of the ship itself and its crew. This book is non-fiction and is a very good read if you are interested in historical books. This is because he keeps you tied into the belief of the victorian sailors who thought they would be part of an almost invincible crew that would go down in history as the first ship to find the antarctic continent and go the furthest and closest in a sailing ship to the south pole. Secondly, they (and the Terrors crew) would be the first ships to navigate the whole of the Northwest Passage (now located in modern-day Canada). This book is about the latter of the two accomplishments In my opinion, this book is structured so well that, it alone makes the book a 7 out of 10 and with the added facts and accounts this book is a solid 9/10

I, myself being a fan of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was immediately hooked. This book was set in Wales. This story is about a young man called Taran with the title of Assistant Pig-Keeper. Who has to chase after the special pig that can tell the future. In this journey, he meets Princess Eilonwy at Spiral Castle who is forced to learn enchantments from her "Aunt" Achren. Which she hates doing o because she was actually kidnapped by her. Taran on his journey with Gydion was also captured by Achren and whilst being captured they find another companion Fflewddur Fflam. A lord and minor king. Lloyd Alexander structure this book very carefully and very well, for this reason, I am going to give the book 9.5 stars out of 10

Master of War is a book about an 18-year-old man called Thomas Blackstone who was once a normal stonemason living a normal village life until some dramatic events occur and is forced to join King Edward V army or be executed for murder he picks the former and in a few weeks he becomes a legendary archer in the English army. His story starts on St Williams day 1346 a very special year in English and French history. This year was the start of the 7 years war. Whilst in France he saves a Princess maid called Christiana whom he falls in love with and 6 words " love can be a dangerous thing" David Gildman use of emotions is amazing the contrast is beautiful and the story feels so true due to this writing like when a person is severely enraged but the next minute they are calm. The way he builds tension and drama is out of this world he keeps you hooked throughout. Constantly enticing you to read more revealing the plot very until the tension explodes. In my opinion, this is prob

Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse is the sequel to the Sea of Monsters. Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Thalia all went to recruit more Demi-gods as they were short of them. Whilst at a Highschool they found two demi-gods one was called Nico di Angelo and his older sister Bianca. At the school, something terrible happened: Annabeth was kidnapped and also Artemis the Goddess of the Hunt went off to find the monster who had done this. I was very surprised when this happened and the whole book was very emotional which I thought was a nice touch by Rick Riodon. This book leads into Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth. If you want to know what happened you will have to read it yourself. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Out of ten stars, I would give it a 9.