ISBN: Print: 9780992443863 | EPUB: 9780992443849
The Convoluted Key is the first book in my brand new middle grade series, Draconian Rules. It’s available in print and ebook from most online book retailers, including Angus & Robertson and Book Depository. More details and other store options are here.
This review contains SPOILERS and is intended for parents.
Sanspell, the first book in Elizabeth Pulford’s BloodTree Chronicles, is a strange piece of metafiction that has some familiar echoes in the race to fulfil a quest before the last leaves fall from the cursed and dying Bloodtree. This book takes itself seriously with none of the tongue-in-cheek self-mockery that usually takes the edge off stories of this type.
Beyond the murk
The ire of dragon long impaled on wretched lance
Encircled in a bitter trial.
Sacred heart and evil dance
And hemlock burns in desperate pale
Beyond and through the cries of night
Bewitched and thrice behove of light
Briton’s daughter-earth beyond
Fearless echo of their heart.