Category: Young Adult/Teen ISBN-10: B005E8YZ2M
Type: Fiction
Pages: 377
Copyright: July 2011
Brand new YA series perfect for fans of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson
When fourteen year old Seckry Sevenstars is forced out of his village by the greedy Endrin Corporation and relocated to the daunting metropolis of Skyfall City, he harbours resentment for the company and vows to get them back one day for taking away his home, his school and his friends.
Fortunately, the marvels of the city do a good job in distracting Seckry from his anger and homesickness, and it isn’t long before he’s competing at Friction (the city’s most popular multiplayer video game), slurping awe-inspiring multicoloured milkshakes, and getting butterflies on his first date.
Then, when a mysterious email asks Seckry to break into the headquarters of the Endrin Corporation and steal a container full of worms for a hefty sum of money, his anger resurfaces, and he can’t resist the revenge he promised himself.
Alone at night, Seckry creeps through the sewers whilst wondering what experiments Endrin might be doing on the worms, and emerges into the silent complex. But the worms aren’t the only thing that he finds. Staring at him through the darkness, with wide, innocent eyes, is something that makes Seckry’s heart almost stop.
A girl.
She’s shaking, petrified, and has no recollection of who she is or what she’s doing there.
Floodlights bleach the area and Seckry has no choice but to grab a hold of the girl and escape with her.
Suddenly the question of what Endrin were doing with a few worms becomes the last thing on Seckry’s mind. What were Endrin doing with a human?
Excerpt
Eiya slumped to the ground and hugged her knees, staring into space.
“He was the only one that could have given us the answers.”
“We’ve come all this way,” Seckry said. “We can’t go back now. Not without finding something out. We have to go in. We have to search for any information we can get.”
Eiya nodded, and Seckry pushed the door open.
The chamber was full of computers that were still running, and was lit by hundreds of blinking lights on components and panels.
They made their way carefully around the skeleton. Seckry had expected the room to smell awful from the decomposing corpse, but in fact, the close air just smelled of hot computer fans and plastic.
“Seckry, look at this,” Eiya called.
Around the corner was an alcove, its walls covered from ground to ceiling in scraps of paper. As Seckry moved closer he saw that each bit of paper had a different sixteen digit number on it.
“What do you think this is?” Eiya asked.
Seckry shook his head. He had no idea.
Seckry felt himself drawn to an old, square television set that was still switched on, and was showing white noise. Clustered underneath the outdated television was a mound of video tapes, and scrawled into the desk beside them were the words:
EVIDENCE AGAINST DARKLIGHT
“Eiya,” Seckry said hurriedly. “Look.” He picked up one of the tapes. A frayed white sticker labelled it as ‘The Stolen Child.’
“It has to be Danney, doesn’t it?” Eiya said, a mixture of excitement and horror in her voice.
Seckry saw that underneath the television was an old VHS recorder. He looked at Eiya and she gave him a tentative nod.
Seckry placed the tape into the player and pressed play.
Professional Reviews
Ema Sava, 15
“Absolutely amazing! I could not put it down for one second, and by the end of it I was left speechless. The more you read, the more you get drawn into this beautiful world he has created. A truly wonderful book, like I have never read before, and the characters are so great, you easily get attached to them. Cannot wait for the sequel!”
Jacob Foley, 13
“City of the falling Sky is easily the best book I’ve ever read, to me better than the Harry Potters. I loved every minute of it. It was so exciting how everything happened and all came into place at the end. It was just so brilliant I could not put it down. I also love Friction, and just thinking about it makes me want to play it so badly. Again, the best book I’ve ever read and I hope there are many more to come.”
Victoria Hutchings, Waterstone's
"Captivating, intoxicating, engrossing. Never before have I wished a fictional world existed so much. I was drawn in from the very first chapter and gripped tightly until the very last word. I felt bereft putting it down."
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