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The Battle Of The Sun (2009)

by Jeanette Winterson(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1408801507 (ISBN13: 9781408801505)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

review 1: ImagineA city made of gold, and each thing in it made of gold, and every person as golden as a precious statue, and the Thames itself a flowing golden god, where a dropped line would hook a golden fish. . .This story is about a man called the Magus. He dreams of turning London into a grand city of gold, but he can’t do it alone. So he kidnaps a child called Jack, who he is sure will help him realise his ambition. But Jack is not a willing assistant and instead he embarks on an adventure to save the city.This is a sequel to the book Tanglewreck, which I haven’t read yet. It doesn’t really matter what order you read it in. They’re different stories altogether.I liked this book because it wasn’t too fast or too slow, though it was pretty slow in some points. But it ... morewas made up by some interesting knowledge. The gaps are filled with quirky happenings. This story has a very original idea, and, as I say, the bizarrer, the better!I’m not to happy with the characters. They seemed very flat, in my opinion. The writing wasn’t a mind-blower either.This is a great book for enthusiastic readers in grades 3-5, but after then the novel seems a little simplistic. All in all, I give this book 3.5/5 smiley faces.
review 2: In Winterson's sequel to Tanglewreck we are thrown back into Elizabethan London and Jack is on his way home eager to take charge of his new puppy when he is kidnapped and kept prisoner in the grey stone of the house of the Magus, an alchemist who has found a way to turn London to gold and force Elizabeth I to cede power to him. As Silver is pulled through time from the present day and her previous battle to rescue the Timekeeper in Tanglewreck London starves and the children battle old and new enemies and encounter bizarre and magical creatures, an old dragon, a wraith like ancient king, a fearsome phoenix and a servant girl and man who are one person split in two. Brilliantly written and bringing to life the the reality of life in Elizabethan times, dirty, smelly, often wretched, impoverished and supersititious, thronging with people and created from living wood and trees. less

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