The Realms Thereunder is the first book in a new trilogy, The Ancient Earth, written by Ross Lawhead. The story is about Daniel Tully, and Freya Reynolds when they were thirteen years old they went missing on a class trip to a church in Abbingdon in the British Midlands. After 72 days of being missing they were found near Kilmarnock, in East Ayreshire, Scotland. No one knows what really happen to them when they went missing, only they do. They found themselves in a world that few know is real and since then they kept it a secret. Now, eight years later they've moved on from that and gone their separate ways.
Freya is a university student with an obsession with myths and folklore. Daniel, a homeless wanderer, plunge back into a renewed crusade in Nidergeard, the city in the mystical realm. But now, it is time they come together because the mythical world is colliding with their world. With the help of Alex Simpson, a Scottish police officer who specializes in hunting mythical creatures, they must help each other defeat the evil that threats the peace. The only way to truly do so is find the army of knights again, who have been asleep for over a thousand years.
The story is told from two perspectives: eight years ago when they were children and now when they are adults. At first it took me a few chapters to get use to the jumps but once you do it's easier to put everything together and understand the importance of their past and the present. That's pretty much the only thing that bother me but other then that I enjoyed the book. I love fantasy, mythology and adventure stories and this is the first time I've read something that contain British folklore.
I reviewed this book as part of the booksneeze.com blogger book review program and received a free copy of the book for my honest review. I'm disclosing this because I'm supposed to.
 DamnBlackHeart · Tue Aug 30, 2011 @ 11:35pm · 0 Comments |
