Battle of the Beasts

Reviewed by: Elyse Davis - Wells Public Library, Wells, Choose Library District

Review Date: November 8, 2014

Review

This is the second book in the House of Secrets series. Although this is a book in a series if you happened to read this book first it does recap frequently what happened in the first book. This is a book chock-full of adventure, suspense and wonderful richly developed characters. The age in which the book is intended for seems a bit young for some of the content. An example of this is when they hang one of the main characters upside down in a dungeon and cover him with cheese so the rats can eat the cheese. Except for a few scenes like this one the story really moves very smoothly and is an edge-of-your-seat read. Chris Columbus is a screen writer who has brought us many exciting and wonderful movie tales and I can totally see this coming to life on the big screen.

Overall Book Score: good