Reckless I: The Petrified Flesh by Cornelia Funke (English) Paperback Book

Description: Reckless I: The Petrified Flesh by Cornelia Funke, Oliver Latsch Enter the magical world behind the Mirrors... FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Jacob Reckless has always been careful to keep the enchanted world behind the mirror secret from his brother. Until one day, Will follows him, unaware of the mortal danger awaiting him: attacked by a group of Goyl - stone-skinned humans who are conquering the world behind the Mirrors - Will turns to jade, their most sacred stone. Jacob desperately tries to save him, but only the fairies have the power to stop the Petrifying Flesh. Together with Wills girlfriend Clara and the shape-shifting Fox, Jacob begins a perilous journey... This first volume of Cornelia Funkes riveting Mirrorworld series introduces the brothers and their breathtaking adventures, in a magical, fearsome world. Author Biography Cornelia Funke is the highly acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author of the Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord and numerous other childrens novels and picture books. Born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten, she worked as a social worker for a few years before turning first to illustration and then to writing. Her books have now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 37 languages. Review A haunting story of loyalty, betrayal, magic and danger -- Nicolette Jones Sunday Times (Childrens Book of the Week) Magical and full of surprises - find a child to read it to as an excuse, or just indulge The Lady A superb series of books. They are certainly intriguing and mesmerising in the telling The School Librarian This book was everything I had hoped it would be Pufflehuffle Kitteh Reads (blog) The Petrified Flesh is a captivating fairy-tale story that will delight all readers - from children to adults. I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought the world to be utterly thrilling... This is a brilliant first book in a trilogy and I am very excited to see where the story is headed Lost in a Daydream (blog) This is a suspenseful and thrilling fantasy that is sure to engage all those fantasy fans Outside in World Long Description Enter the magical world behind the Mirrors... Jacob Reckless has always been careful to keep the enchanted world behind the mirror secret from his brother. Until one day, Will follows him, unaware of the mortal danger awaiting him: attacked by a group of Goyl - stone-skinned humans who are conquering the world behind the Mirrors - Will turns to jade, their most sacred stone. Jacob desperately tries to save him, but only the fairies have the power to stop the Petrifying Flesh. Together with Wills girlfriend Clara and the shape-shifting Fox, Jacob begins a perilous journey... This first volume of Cornelia Funkes riveting Mirrorworld series introduces the brothers and their breathtaking adventures, in a magical, fearsome world. Review Quote "A haunting story of loyalty, betrayal, magic and danger" Sunday Times "Magical and full of surprises - find a child to read it to as an excuse, or just indulge" The Lady "A superb series of books. They are certainly intriguing and mesmerising in the telling" The School Librarian Excerpt from Book 2 Twelve Years Later The sun already stood low over the walls of the burned ruin, but Will was still asleep, exhausted from the pain and the fear of what would was growing in his flesh. One mistake. After twelve years of caution. Jacob covered his brother with his cloak and looked up at the sky. The two moons were already visible and the setting sun blackened the surrounding hills. He had made this world his home. Twelve years were a long time. By fourteen he already couldnt count the months he had spent behind the mirror, despite his mothers tears, despite her helpless fear for him... "Where have you been, Jacob? Please! Tell me!" How? How could he have told her without loosing the precious freedom the mirror granted him, all the life he had found behind it, the feeling to be so much more himself behind its glass. "Where have you been, Jacob?" She had never found out. He had told Will of this world, convinced his brother would believe it all to be nothing but a fairy tale. He should have known him better. Why didnt he realize that his stories would fill Will with the same yearning that drove him through the mirror? Be honest, Jacob, you didnt want to think about it. No. He had longed to share what he had found with someone, and as his fathers study had kept the mirrors secret for so many years, it had been far too easy to convince himself that it would be safe there forever. Maybe it would have been if he hadnt been so eager to go back. He had forgotten only once to lock the door, and his hand was already pressed against the dark glass when Will walked in. It is so tempting to escape ones bad conscience by changing worlds. Everything in the apartment had reminded Jacob that he had been looking for a glass shoe while his mother was dying. You have deserted her, Jacob, her empty room had whispered. Exactly like your father. In fairy tales the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers... The wounds on Wills neck healed well, but the stone already showed in his left arm. It was jade. That was unusual. Mostly it was carnelian, jasper, moonstone... "He has already the scent of a Goyl." The vixen moved out of the shadows cast by the crumbling walls. Her fur was as red as if autumn itself had dyed it. Over her hind leg it was streaked with pale scars. It had been almost five years since Jacob had freed Fox from the iron teeth of a poachers trap, and she had guarded his sleep ever since, warning him of dangers that his dull human senses could not detect, giving advice that was best followed. "What are you waiting for? Wake him and take him back. Weve been here for hours." The impatience in her voice was hard to miss. "Thats what we came here for, isnt it?" Jacob looked at his sleeping brother. Yes, thats why he had brought Will back to the tower: to take him back to the other world. But how was he supposed to live there growing a skin of jade? Jacob walked under the arch which held the scorched remnants of the castles doors. A Heinzel scampered off as Jacobs shadow fell on him. It was barely bigger than a mouse, with red eyes above a pointy nose, and pants and shirt sewn from stolen human clothes. The ruin was swarming with them. "I changed my mind," he said. "Theres nothing in the other world that can help him." Jacob had tried to tell Fox years ago about the world he came from, but she didnt want to hear about it. What she knew was enough: the place to which he disappeared far too often to bring back memories that followed him like shadows. "And? What do you think will happen to him here?" In her world, fathers killed their own sons as soon as they discovered the stone in their skin. But Jacob was sure that if there was a cure they would find it here. At the foot of the hill the red roofs of Schwanstein were fading into the twilight and the first lights were coming on in the houses. In his first year behind the mirror, Jacob had worked in one of the stables. From a distance, it looked like one of the pictures printed on gingerbread tins. Only the tall smokestacks of the factories sending gray smoke into the evening sky didnt fit into that image. The New Magic... thats what technology and science were called in this world. The Petrified Flesh, though, was not sown by mechanical looms or other modern achievements, but by the old magic that dwelled in its hills and valleys, its rivers, oceans, flowers, and trees; in Seven Miles Boots, Witch Needles, and countless other magical objects that Jacob had made his craft to find. A Gold-Raven landed on the wall under which Will was sleeping. Jacob shooed it away before it could croak one of its sinister spells in his brothers ear. Will groaned in his sleep. The human skin did not yield to the jade without a fight. Jacob felt the pain as his own and for the first time ever he found himself cursing the mirror. He had only returned to the apartment for his brother, always at night so as to be sure his mother would be sleeping. Her tears had made it too hard to leave again, but Will had just wrapped his arms around him, asking what he had brought for him. The shoes of a Heinzel, the cap of a Thumbling, a button made of Elven glass, a piece of scaly Waterman skin--Will had hidden Jacobs gifts behind his books, and then he had asked for more stories about the world where his brother found such treasure, until dawn cast its light onto the faded wallpaper and Jacob stole back to the mirror. He grabbed his rucksack. "Ill be back soon. If he wakes tell him he has to wait for me. Dont allow him to go near the tower." "And where are you going?" The vixen moved into his path. "You cant help him, Jacob." "I know. But I have to try." Details ISBN1782691243 Author Oliver Latsch Year 2016 ISBN-10 1782691243 ISBN-13 9781782691242 Format Paperback Media Book Imprint Pushkin Childrens Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 833.92 Publisher Pushkin Childrens Books Pages 352 Translator Oliver Latsch Language English Translated from German Publication Date 2016-09-29 Audience Age 12 Series Number 1 Series The Mirrorworld Series Illustrator Cornelia Funke UK Release Date 2016-09-29 AU Release Date 2016-09-29 NZ Release Date 2016-10-25 Audience Teenage / Young adult We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:100382430;

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