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Something dark and sinister is going on at the British Museum. An ancient power has awoken and it has stopped time. People are frozen like statues. Only Will and his sister Jo are still moving. The only humans still moving, that is. The dragons are moving. They're spitting real fire, too. And they're attacking Will and Jo. A glorious golden girl comes to their rescue, followed by an angel and a muse. And Will and Joe are plunged into a world where statues are alive and where good battles evil. Why are they still moving? Who is behind the stopping of time? And will they ever get Mum back?

This time, the human children are brother and sister. But, as with ''Stoneheart'', they also begin as antagonists. Jo has a gammy leg and Will thinks it's all his fault. He dared his own little sister to jump from the shed roof when he has only pretended to do it himself. Guilt is eating away at him and it's turning to anger - an anger he is too afraid to direct at himself so turns on Jo, setting up a vicious circle of more guilt, more anger, and more resentment. But in this dangerous, frozen world there isn't much time for misery and navel-gazing, so Will must learn to set his guilty conscience aside and apply himself to the perils at hand if he is to save Mum, Jo and, well, every other Londoner. Can he do it?

Highly recommended.

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