Title: Root
Bound (Emma and The Elementals #1)
Author: Tanya
Karen Gough
Genre: YA Fantasy
How far will you go to find your way home?
Emma and her father are always on the move, travelling from place to place as her father’s work demands. Their new home, however, is different. There’s a frightening woman who lives down the hall: she bears an uncanny resemblance to a witch. A mysterious light comes from her apartment, and a small boy seems to be trapped inside.
School in this town is no happy place either, with an odd principal and a gang of girls who make tormenting Emma their special project. And strangest of all is the fact that there seem to be brownies - basement brownies, in the air vent in her bedroom.
Haunted by visions of her mother, Emma travels through the brownie burrow to the valley of Hades to visit with the goddess Ceres, following a series of clues that lead her across the sea of memory to the centre of the world.
There, on an inhospitable rock floating in a sea of steaming lava, Emma must find a way to release her mother from the sea of memory and restore magic to both the brownie burrow and the human world above.
Emma and her father are always on the move, travelling from place to place as her father’s work demands. Their new home, however, is different. There’s a frightening woman who lives down the hall: she bears an uncanny resemblance to a witch. A mysterious light comes from her apartment, and a small boy seems to be trapped inside.
School in this town is no happy place either, with an odd principal and a gang of girls who make tormenting Emma their special project. And strangest of all is the fact that there seem to be brownies - basement brownies, in the air vent in her bedroom.
Haunted by visions of her mother, Emma travels through the brownie burrow to the valley of Hades to visit with the goddess Ceres, following a series of clues that lead her across the sea of memory to the centre of the world.
There, on an inhospitable rock floating in a sea of steaming lava, Emma must find a way to release her mother from the sea of memory and restore magic to both the brownie burrow and the human world above.
Author Bio
Tanya
Karen Gough owned and published The Poor Yorick Shakespeare Catalogue from
1997-2007, earning a strong international customer base of world class
academics and high school educators. Tanya was also a contributing editor for
the Internet Shakespeare Editions at the University of Victoria (BC), audio advisor
for the Sourcebooks Shakespeare textbook series, and theatre reviewer for
Playshakespeare.com. Tanya grew up in New Hampshire and currently lives in
Toronto, Ontario.
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Book
Excerpts
Root
Bound Excerpt 1
The steps grew louder, until they were right
outside the door. The brownies clung to Emma, shivering in fear.
“What do I do?” Emma whispered, the words sticking
in her throat. The brownies looked around. Truss tugged at her shirt
frantically and pointed.
“There!” she gasped. Emma followed her arm, which
pointed toward the wall.
“There’s nothing there. Just a wall.”
“Not the wall. The vent,” Piers cried out,
clutching her collar. “Down there, along the baseboards.”
“But I can’t fit in there,” Emma whispered
urgently. “I’m too big!” Just then the doorknob rattled.
“GO!” the brownies screamed in unison as the knob
turned and the door began to creak open.
Emma didn’t know what else to do, so she scooted
out from under the bed and ran toward the air vent. The brownies clung to her,
grabbing her ears, her nose and even the edges of the book, hanging on for dear
life.
“Jump!” Mat screamed in her ear.
“I can’t.”
“There’s no time! Jump! Jump NOW!”
She was so afraid, she couldn’t even think
straight.
“Jump NOW!” Piers shouted.
“Slip through! You can do it!” a voice echoed in
her ears. She did not know if it was one of them shouting or herself.
“Slip through!”
“JUMP!”
“NOW!”
Emma took a deep breath and looked once more toward
the bedroom door. It rattled and shook, and the doorknob started to turn. She
turned back to the wall and looked at the tiny vent near the floorboards. Then
she did something she never thought she would do.
She jumped.
My Review:
Have you ever thought of what lives under your house? I have a root system under my house that messes with us every once in awhile. It is true though that the roots are alive. This book reminded me of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Where there is a whole world under the ice. That is like this book. There is a whole world under our buildings. Our buildings are alive, and can be good or bad. If they are bad than their roots wither and the beings living under the roots are killed.
Emma is a wanderer. She moves around with her dad from place to place, following his career. Her mother is gone.
I thought that this was a very interesting book. It is great for young adults and fits in with the science fiction world of today. Between Harry Potter, and Star Wars, Science fiction is everywhere nowadays. This book is different from the rest in that it is about the life of roots. I thought about this for a little bit, and what a concept. Roots are everywhere. They ground us. There are physical roots, that without plants would die, due to lack of nutrients. But there are also family roots that tell us who we are and where we come from. Roots can be remade and start a completely different plant. Without roots for our trees we would not have oxygen, because we would not have trees.
The ending of this book was also nice. I didn't like what happened to the wanderer, but hopefully that will be settled in the second book. Because I think that the ending could have had a much better ending, I am giving this book a 4.5/5
I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own.
I am giving away an ebook of Root Bound to one lucky reader, thanks to Enchanted book Promotions!
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Emma is a wanderer. She moves around with her dad from place to place, following his career. Her mother is gone.
I thought that this was a very interesting book. It is great for young adults and fits in with the science fiction world of today. Between Harry Potter, and Star Wars, Science fiction is everywhere nowadays. This book is different from the rest in that it is about the life of roots. I thought about this for a little bit, and what a concept. Roots are everywhere. They ground us. There are physical roots, that without plants would die, due to lack of nutrients. But there are also family roots that tell us who we are and where we come from. Roots can be remade and start a completely different plant. Without roots for our trees we would not have oxygen, because we would not have trees.
The ending of this book was also nice. I didn't like what happened to the wanderer, but hopefully that will be settled in the second book. Because I think that the ending could have had a much better ending, I am giving this book a 4.5/5
I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own.
I am giving away an ebook of Root Bound to one lucky reader, thanks to Enchanted book Promotions!
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