Charlie Fletcher Libri

L'Oscurità, entità malvagia e fatta di nulla, deve assumere una forma per sopravvivere. E quando a una fiera popolare avvenuta a Londra cento anni prima ha incontrato frammenti di ghiaccio, ha preso le sembianze di un bianco demone. Oggi il tempo si è fermato nella città sommersa da una tormenta di neve e, all'improvviso, spopolata. L'ostilità tra Destati, statue benevole raffiguranti uomini e Marchiati, mostri di pietra uniti dall'odio per il genere umano, sfocia in una guerra feroce in cui rimangono coinvolti anche Edie e George. Al ragazzo spetta un'ardua missione: eliminare il Demone di Ghiaccio, ma per farlo dovrà risolvere l'enigma delle Sfingi... Intanto Edie compie un viaggio temporale alla ricerca della madre, che come lei era una Scintillante e poteva vedere gli eventi del passato. In realtà, aveva abbandonato la figlia solo per proteggerla. Ma un'altra rivelazione attende la ragazza. Una rivelazione che la legherà indissolubilmente a George...

The Paradox is a gothic fantasy adventure that will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman, A Discovery of Witches and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, from the author of The Oversight

The Oversight trilogy comes to a thrilling end in The Remnant. M. R. Carey says 'exciting, exhilarating, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realised'

Alternate cover can be found here. George makes a promise to Edie that anything and anyone trying to get her will have to get past him first. But George is unaware that high on the rooftops an unseen gargoyle is watching them hungrily. The thing on the roof knows that nothing is over, nothing is finished.

"Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall."--Publisher's description

A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living. Twelve-year-old George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. When, in a tiny act of rebellion, George breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, he awakes an ancient power. This power has been dormant for centuries but the results are instant and terrifying: A stone Pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George. He runs for his life but it seems that no one can see what he’s running from. No one, except Edie, who is also trapped in this strange world. And this is just the beginning as the statues of London awake… This is a story of statues coming to life; of a struggle between those with souls and those without; of how one boy who has been emotionally abandoned manages to find hope.

The start of a thrilling, action-packed trilogy from Charlie Fletcher, set in a world where statues come to life and dragons and heroes battle.

»Wenn du dieses Jahr nur ein einziges Buch liest, muss es dieses sein. Es wird dein Herz brechen.« Nerd Daily Mein Name ist Griz. Meine Kindheit war anders als deine. Ich hatte keine Freunde, einfach aus dem Grund, dass ich außer meiner Familie kaum jemanden kenne. Überhaupt bin ich in meinem ganzen Leben nur einer Handvoll Menschen begegnet. Zwar sagen meine Eltern, dass die Welt einst bevölkert war, doch jetzt gibt es nur noch uns. Aber wir sind nicht einsam auf unserer entlegenen Insel. Wir haben uns – und unsere Hunde. Aber dann kam der Dieb, und er stahl meinen Hund. Auch wenn es kein Gesetz mehr gibt, das Diebstahl bestraft, werde ich ihn mir zurückholen. Denn was bleibt von unserer Menschlichkeit übrig, wenn wir nicht für jene, die wir lieben, alles, wirklich ALLES tun …