Secret of the Time Tablets

Reviewed by: Melissa Madigan - Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 3, 2016

Review

This is the third book in the Cleopatra in Space graphic novel series. The stories are based on the premiss that a young Cleopatra (yes THAT Cleopatra) gets transported to the future where she learns that she is to save the galaxy from the evil Xaius Octavian. In this episode Cleo and her friends come upon Octavian . The kids fight him and his army with rocks a slingshots. Octavian forces Cleo into a cave where there is a special tablet that she is some how connected to. In touching the tablet is gets rid of Octavian (at least for now), and Cleopatra wakes up in a hospital after having been unconscious for 3 weeks. Cleo then discovers another tablet and realizes that they are all connected and she could travel back to her real home and time. She also realizes that her true destiny is to die. Will she leave or will she stay?

This is a very popular series with the kids at my library.

Overall Book Score: very good