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The Dark Flight Down
By Sedgwick, Marcus
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38574-645-8 978-0-38590-880-1
- Publisher
- Lamb Random
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2006
Gr 6-9 A teen who doesn -t know anything about his past, or even his own name, swirls deeper into mystery against the background of a Vienna-like decaying city. In this creepy but melodramatic sequel to "The Book of Dead Days" (Random, 2004), Boy is yanked from his previous life of serving the doomed magician Valerian and thrown into the deepest dungeon of the mad Emperor Frederick. The ruler is convinced that th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2005
Boy and his friend Willow, of The Book of Dead Days (rev. 11/04), are still fugitives in a medieval city that resembles nightmare more than it does history. They're separated when Boy is captured by minions of the emperor, a vicious, foolish old man sequestered in a labyrinthine palace and obsessed with gaining his own immortality. The emperor's sidekick, M...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
