River Secrets by Shannon Hale

May 29th, 2008 at 9:05am |

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Audience: 10 and up

Rating: A-

Synopsis:

Tira and Bayern have an uneasy peace between their angry countries. Tira is threatening to begin the war again at any moment, so Isi and Geric must send a diplomatic party to live in Tira to try and establish peace between the kingdoms. But Tira is slow to forgive for get the deaths that occurred at the hands of the ‘fire witch’ and when burning deaths start happening in Tira, it’s up to Razo to figure out who’s behind these deaths before war begins again.

Chatter:

(Spoiler Alerts! ) Razo is hilarious! He’s like the little brother that everyone loves playing tricks on. I know that he really reminds me of mine. It was interesting to read about when he tried to get serious and the things that worried him. I laughed so hard at the part where he’s convinced that Dasha has people speech because of the impact she has on him. It’s too funny that he didn’t recognize that he was falling for her.

I have to admit, for awhile I thought that maybe Sileph was the burner. I thought that maybe he had someone survived the stabbing and that Enna’s powers had been transferred to him.

A fourth book of Bayern is in the works. I don’t know who it’s about, but I’d like to see a book about Geric. He’s such an interesting character and we never get to hear much about him. It would be get to get a book from him perspective. “Radiance” would also be an intriguing narrator. I’d like to see him become MUCH more self-aware and use his influence to create positive change in Tira.