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|title=Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent (The Father of Lies Chronicles)

|author=Alan Early

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781856358279

|pages=320

|publisher=Mercier Press

|date=August 2011

|website=http://www.arthurquinn.ie/home.html

|video=CUc5ur4_eMA

'Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent' is a truly superb book. Early has woven a story that accesses ancient Viking lore and combines it effortlessly with the lives of contemporary teenagers living in Dublin. The characters and relationships between the friends, their parents, their teacher and others are carefully considered and well developed with a natural ease. The reader experiences the developing friendships. The descriptions given in the book allow the reader to be carried easily along through the day to day routines of Arthur, Ash (Ashling) and the elusive, yet strangely magnetic Will with a tangible sense of their ordinary reality, as well as time and location. The effect is very cinematic. Yet there always seems to be something amiss, the timing of events as they unfold ever so slightly off. At times, this can be unsettling and requires a bit of patience. But it is this carefully crafting of something being askew that propels the reader forward and creates the tension as the drama builds and unfolds. With several real surprise twists built into the plot, this book was an amazing read. The timing, pace and characterisation were brilliant and genuine. 'Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent’ begins the Father of Lies Chronicles, and I, for one, can’t wait for the rest! A must read for fans of fantasy and mythology.

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