Post #49: The Wyrm King

The Wyrm King (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles)

Holly Black

Post number forty-nine is for Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Book Three: The Wyrm King.

Brief spoilers follow.

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This book picks up almost directly after the second book in the series. The Vargas family is heading to see a counselor, as Nick's dad and Laurie's mom are having issues. They end up deciding to separate for a while, so the boys head to a trailer in their old subdivision and the girls are at a hotel. However, on the way to the trailer they encounter a large sinkhole that has creatures crawling in it. Nick and Jules realize that this is the start of the "something worse" that the Grace twins mentioned at the end of the last book.

Those creatures are miniature dragons, which form together to form a hydra, or the Wyrm King. With the help of the Grace siblings and Noseum Jack's son, they set out to fight the hydra. There are lots of minor crises along the way, including a broken leg and a near-drowning, but in the end they manage to do what they need to.

This book was an easy read, but I don't think it was as suspenseful as it could have been. Maybe that's just because I already knew they'd have a "happy" ending or something else, but I wasn't really surprised by anything, and also wasn't really on the edge of my seat, so to speak. It was still enjoyable, and I imagine it would be even more so for the age group it was intended for, but I thought the first two books in the series were better. Oh, well.

Comments

[Panda.ink]

[this is good] I find it Amazing that Holly Black has manage to pump out so many books in such a small span of time, not bad but good fun reading, sure when i was in the age group they were more fun to read but I still find them pretty entertaining :) 

I wonder if another movie will come of this? speaking of Book made movies did you hear that their going to make a "City of Bones" Movie 

*Small Scream of delight*

 

[Merin]

Re: Cassie: I had heard that she had sold the rights but not that the movie was definitely going to happen. That is good news for her, for sure!

Holly probably manages to crank out so many things because many are co-written with someone else. It no doubt makes the process go a bit faster when you can constantly share ideas.

[Panda.ink]

" Holly probably manages to crank out so many things because many are co-written with someone else. It no doubt makes the process go a bit faster when you can constantly share ideas."
Oh no wonder!