![]() When Kit moves with his mother and father to the mining town of Stoneygate to keep company with his newly widowed grandfather, he feels drawn to John Askew who, like Kit, comes from a long line of coal miners. Nevertheless, he takes readers on a thrilling and spine-tingling ride. ![]() He opens the novel with a triumphant scene, in which Kit Watson, the 13-year-old narrator, and his classmates, John Askew and Allie Keenan reemerge from ""ancient darkness into a shining valley,"" as if to reassure readers throughout the course of the cryptic tale that the game of ""Death,"" so central to the book, is indeed just a game. Revisiting many of the themes from Skellig, Almond offers another tantalizing blend of human drama, surrealism and allegory. ![]()
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