Burning Shadow
For fans of Nancy Farmer and Lloyd Alexander comes international bestselling author Michelle Paver’s second novel in the Bronze Age adventure series. While searching for his kidnapped sister, Outsider Hylas takes a dangerous detour when he’s captured as a slave and sent to the copper mines of Thalakrea. Hylas faces brutal overseers and lethal cave-ins while evading his enemies, the Crows. With the aid of an orphaned lion cub and his friend Pirra, Hylas must escape the mines and shatter the power of the Crows for good. But the prophecy is still at work and Hylas cannot escape its grasp, especially when the anger of the oldest god is awakened.
Reviews
"It was a good book although the ending could've been a lot better"
"i love this book its full of adventure and action."
"I absolutely adore this book! Sometimes it makes me so frustrated why they kept thinking that there is a Lady in the volcano... I just don't get it why it's in Young Adult Fiction."
"I thought this was faintly weaker than the first book — until the conclusion which storm tossed me in a small boat on a wide sea. Figuratively speaking, mostly. So near, so near. The hero and heroine are truly star crossed. Will they ever become lovers?"
"I JUST LOVE MICHELLE PAVER'S STORIES!! I missed Spirit in this one...but oh how I enjoyed the relationship between Havoc and Hylas. And of course Pirra. Paver creates an amazing group of characters and takes them on heart pounding adventures in this incredible series. Im moving straight into the third book "The Burning Falcon" and I can't wait. Its an absolute treat to be able to read books in a series back to back and it's especially exciting to be reading Paver's stories one after the other. This book left me with some unanswered questions that I hope are resolved in book three. Fantastic series that I recommend to everyone!"
"Anything she writes, I read. I adore Michelle Paver and I read The Burning Shadow in a day. It's great!"
About Author
Michelle Paver is the international bestselling author of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series and won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Ms. Paver lives in the UK.She always wanted to write about volcanoes, so she had fun exploring the fiery islands off Sicily. It’s such a weird feeling to kneel on the flank of a volcano and peer into a fumarole: a spitting, sputtering hole that’s crusted with bright yellow sulphur and spurting foul-smelling smoke. It really makes you aware of the unimaginable heat at the centre of the earth.