Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent
By Alan Early
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Something wicked has awoken under the streets of Dublin ... When his dad is offered a job working on the new Metro tunnel, Arthur has to move to Dublin with him. While exploring a hidden underground river, Arthur and his new friends Will and Ash find a mysterious glowing pendant. The pendant depicts a giant snake strangling the trunk of a tree. The friends soon figure out that the pendant is a warning, a sign that something evil is waiting underneath the city. Something that's been imprisoned for a thousand years, something left by the Vikings, something that can - and will - destroy first the city, then the world. What did the Vikings bury under the city of Dublin and why did they leave it there? Who is the dark man that spies on Arthur and what is his evil plan? In the end, only Arthur and his friends can save the world from the dreaded World Serpent.
Reviews:
'If you love Rick Riordan's fantasy fiction, then this is the adventure for you'...'an absolute rip-roaring read'- Sunday Business Post
'..Harry Potter, Dublin style' - Irish Examiner
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Reviews for Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I was much younger there was a series of books of world myths and legends that I devoured. This resonated quite well with me and the Norse myths and legends I read at the time. (It also gave me big clues about what was going to happen in the book and what's going to happen in the next books)Dublin was a viking settlement, there's evidence all over the place of this, and this uses that fact and plays with it. Arthur Quinn has to move from Kerry to Dublin with his dad when his dad gets a job working for the metro north. He's been having strange dreams about ancient warriors and now they're getting more and more frequent. In his new school he makes new friends Will and Ash and finds himself embroiled in a war that might destroy the world. It's interesting but there were moments when my suspension of disbelief was strained a little. Seriously those kids need to get themselves to a library and do some research. They also came across as a bit older than the about 12 they were supposed to be. As well there weren't enough descriptions of where people were to truly satisfy me. Though it did drag me in and I resented having to go back to work rather than continuing to read it.I enjoyed the read and I expect that it will engender a lot of discussion, I have a pretty good idea what the hammer is, Ash is a great solid female character as well and the story has potential.Now, I wonder how they'll deal with Fenrir.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Twelve-year-old Arthur is on his way to Dublin from Kerry where his father is about to start a new job helping to construct the new underground metro. During the drive there, he has the first of a long line of dreams/visions about Loki and other Viking gods. Starting at his new school, he makes friends with Ash and Will, and pretty soon they’re getting themselves into trouble when they start to explore Dublin’s Viking past during a school trip. But there are worse things in store for them than getting a telling-off from the teacher …I was intrigued by the premise of combining Norse mythology with present-day Dublin, but there isn’t much in the novel I didn’t already know. Arthur, Ash and Will are annoyingly precocious for their supposed ages, and their characters' actions (or non-actions) often don't make a lot of sense. Some passages, for example the children exploring the underground river, are quite atmospheric, but in my view the rather pedestrian writing never raised these examples to anything above mildly intriguing, and I could never quite engage with any of them. In addition, there are far too many inconsistencies and implausibilities in my view to make this anything but a mediocre read. That’s a shame, as I had hoped it would encourage my son to read up more on the Vikings and their myths and legends, as this was one of my favourite subjects when I was young, but this book clearly won’t elicit more than a ‘Yeah, quite interesting’ response. One can only hope that the next volume in the series, dealing with the wolf Fenrir, will deliver more, although I'm not so sure whether I will still be on board then.(This review was written as part of Amazon's Vine programme.)