TERRA ELECRICA THE GUARDIANS OF THE NORTH BY ANTONIA MAXWELL
Paperback published by Neem Tree Press 4th July 2024
ISBN 9781915584113
The last ice cap has melted, and the world is on the brink of collapse. A deadly force—Terra Electrica—has been unleashed. It feeds on electricity. It is infecting civilization.
In this chaotic, rapidly changing reality, 12-year-old Mani has lost her family and community to the Terra Electrica. Armed only with some ancestral wisdom and a powerful, ancient wooden mask she was never meant to inherit so soon, she suddenly finds herself responsible for the fate of the world.
Can Mani piece everything together and harness her newfound powers in time to save humanity?
MY REVIEW
Terra Electrica, The Guardians of the North, by Antonia Maxwell, is absolutely unputdownable, fantastic. I was glued to this story so much, that I can definitely see this novel, being snapped up made into a film for TV, but also in major cinemas too. Mani, is a brave little girl, who has lost her mother, to a deadly disease that struck the village she once used to live in. The disease took the whole village, and now there is only Mani and her dad left. The only safest place for Mani and her father is to live in a cave. Mani is left in the cave on her own, while her dad hunts for food. Mani only brought from the family home a wooded mask that her mother told her was very special, which she puts on inside the cave, where strange things start to happen. As Mani is starving and fed up waiting for her father to come back to the cave, she adventures out, to look for her father and see if she can find some food herself, and meets a talking bear. This is honestly such an amazing fantasy novel, not to be missed by any reader, no matter what your age, if you are 9 to 90!
About author Antonia Maxwell
Antonia Maxwell is a writer and editor based in North Essex and Cambridge, UK. With a degree in Modern Languages and a long-standing career as a book editor, she has a lifelong curiosity for language and words, and a growing fascination in the power of story – the way it shapes our lives and frames our experience https://www.instagram.com/antonia_maxwell_author https://www.Twitter.com/antonia_books https://www.antoniamaxwell.com/
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