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The Blurb On The Back:
If the call came – would you answer?
Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy is not cut out to be a hero. But one day a three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears and tells Mack he is one of the Magnificent Twelve – an elite team who must save the world from the greatest evil it has ever faced. Mack must travel the globe and track down the other eleven kids who will fight the coming terror.
But it all sounds a bit dangerous and Mack never planned to be a hero ... Will he answer the call?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The first in a new Middle Grade fantasy series treads the familiar old ground of a chosen one having to battle evil. Although the author tries to put a modern spin on it, for me the glib tone and too mature references stopped me from empathising with the main character and his journey. There are some genuine laughs, courtesy of a golem replacement struggling to understand how the world works, but it wasn’t enough to raise this above a so-so read.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the free copy of this book.
Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy is not cut out to be a hero. But one day a three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears and tells Mack he is one of the Magnificent Twelve – an elite team who must save the world from the greatest evil it has ever faced. Mack must travel the globe and track down the other eleven kids who will fight the coming terror.
But it all sounds a bit dangerous and Mack never planned to be a hero ... Will he answer the call?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The first in a new Middle Grade fantasy series treads the familiar old ground of a chosen one having to battle evil. Although the author tries to put a modern spin on it, for me the glib tone and too mature references stopped me from empathising with the main character and his journey. There are some genuine laughs, courtesy of a golem replacement struggling to understand how the world works, but it wasn’t enough to raise this above a so-so read.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the free copy of this book.
