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(More customer reviews)I'd been looking out for this sequel to The Midnight Charter, and I have to say I wasn't disappointed. David Whitley has done exactly what I wanted and simply plunged straight on with the story as if we'd never been away. The beginning avoids any tedious retelling of book one's plot (although we are given enough gentle reminders to jog your memory of who's who and what happened to help readers who are new to Whitley's legendary world of Agora) as we find Mark and Lily abandoned and alone in the forbidding mountains and wintry forests outside the walls of Agora. A place they had always believed to be a howling wilderness.
As Lily's confidence dwindles she is unable to talk to the increasingly withdrawn and bitter Mark, who blames her for their banishment. He is about to desert her when a terrifying encounter leaves Lily for dead and Mark desperately seeking help - rescue comes from a surprising source.
They find themselves in a village, whose existence was completely unsuspected. And whose lifestyle is one of peace, harmony and communal unselfishness. Lily, recovering, feels they have found the place they were seeking - but Mark is unwilling to conform and soon finds that opposition is not tolerated. When he defies the Speaker of the village, he is warned that his disobedience will call up The Nightmare. Something he begins to suspect he has already experienced in the darkness of the surrounding forest.
Dreams and nightmares, morality and choices, conformity and revolution are all threaded through a fast-paced adventure with enough drama, mystery, suspense, crime and politics to satisfy lovers of any genre and of any age.
Intelligent writing - Highly recommended.
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