Sadie Chesterfield’s Mysticons – Prophecy of Evil is a magic adventure for 9 year olds about four girls with borrowed powers and a prophecy nobody wants to read out loud.<\/p>\n
Drake City runs on magic and phones at the same time, which is a fun combination. The four Mysticons ride griffins and call up their powers from bangles, and they also have to answer the phone.<\/p>\n
Arkayna is the Dragon Mage and throws fireballs. Em is the Knight, with a shield and a sword. Zarya is the Ranger, with a bow. Piper is the Striker, and her weapons are hoops of pure energy, which the book says are perfect for throwing at bad guys.<\/p>\n
Only Arkayna has a second secret. Under the mask she’s the princess of Gemina, and almost nobody knows.<\/p>\n
The story starts with them copying a stolen artefact so they can finally read the prophecy on it. It works. Then they wish it hadn’t, because what it says is that when twin stars unite, a spectral beast will rise.<\/p>\n
And Nova Terron, the old mage who is supposed to be helping them, will not explain the rest.<\/p>\n
The best thing in it is Arkayna’s temper. When she finds out what was kept from her, she doesn’t make a speech. She throws a fireball at him and then rescues him from a falling boulder about a minute later, because she has to, and tells him they’re finished the moment the quest is over. That’s a proper feeling handled properly.<\/p>\n
It moves fast. Short chapters, a fight in most of them, jokes dropped in the middle of the danger. Oh my goblin. The evil lich hit a glitch. A small furry creature called Choko gets disguised as the princess and scratches behind his ear with his foot.<\/p>\n
Now, the honest bit. The Mysticons are teenagers, and the plot turns on a baby being taken from her mother at birth and the mother’s memory of her being magically erased. There’s a Queen of the Undead, an army of skeleton creatures, one character held helpless while another prepares to kill him, and a villain who throws a toddler over a railing while saying children should be neither seen nor heard.<\/p>\n
Nobody dies on the page here and the tone stays bright. But that’s a lot of dark furniture for a younger reader, and most of it arrives early.<\/p>\n
A child of nine who already watches this sort of thing will be fine and will love the fights. A child who doesn’t, probably won’t.<\/p>\n
For another team of four young heroes with their own powers, there’s Spirit Animals – Heart of the Land. Conor, Abeke, Meilin and Rollan each have an animal bonded to them, and they’ve arrived at a crumbling citadel where the grown-up rulers of their world are about to meet for the first time in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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