What’s it all about?:
Life on the run from madman Martin Reimer gets in the way of everything.
For fourteen-year-old Phillip, it has meant having to stay hidden, unable to use his gift of moving through maps to search for his missing father. But the arrival of a stranger named Delroy brings unexpected opportunity, for Delroy is a man with the ability to travel worlds hidden within our own and he was sent by Phillip’s father. Now Phillip will do everything he can to find his dad, even if it means tricking Delroy into helping him or a quest through those hidden worlds.
Even if leaving home means Martin can now find him…
Follow in the adventures of Phillip Stone and Natalie Bristol from the award-winning book The Magician’s Doll!
What did I think?:
The Worlds Traveler is the second book in the Hidden Gifted series by an author I’m starting to think is seriously gifted herself. In the first novel, The Magician’s Doll, we met Natalie and Phillip, two teenagers with extraordinary magical abilities. Phillip has the ability to travel through maps to any destination of his choice and Natalie is able to perform tricks with her mind and enhance Phillip’s own powers. After a nail-biting finale in the first story, we meet the children again as they are experimenting with time travel and a close shave when the two are almost caught at Edinburgh Castle. Their mothers are slightly concerned and suggest that perhaps they should resist the urge to time travel. Even though the group have moved to a new town and set up protection spells that should reduce the chance of the evil Martin and Sebastian finding them, they are still living in dangerous times and should not draw any unnecessary attention to themselves.
Phillip in particular feels very fed-up with this new rule. He has thoroughly enjoyed traveling through time and was hoping to use his gift and his special map to try and find his father, who has been missing in mysterious circumstances for a while now and he sorely feels his absence. A new arrival in town brings a little adventure back into the proceedings and when he finds out more about this strange traveller, especially concerning his “gift,” he is determined that nothing is going to stop him trying to find his father, with or without the strangers help (although it would be a bonus!).
Leaving a note for their mothers, Phillip and Natalie embark on what could easily be the biggest and most perilous adventure of their lives in the search for a man they are not even sure is still alive. During their journey, they “become clouds,” (sounds weird, but believe me it is so much fun to read about!) make new friends, including a peculiar caterpillar-like many-legged googly-eyed creature who is simply adorable and finally, as you might expect, they end up in some very dangerous situations. In fact, by the end of this book I was left on absolute tenterhooks, desperate to know what was going to happen next and can’t believe I’m now going to have to wait to see how the story continues! This is a fantastic continuation to The Hidden Gifted series which is packed with so much action, adventure, fantastical creatures and picture-perfect scenes from an author with both huge imagination and talent.
To read my review of The Magician’s Doll, click HERE.
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Would I recommend it?:
But of course!
Star rating (out of 5):
