Gregor is a ‘rager,’ a sort of super fighter. And he needs to be because war is coming to the Underland. Gregor and the Marks of Secret is fourth in the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins and it moves at breakneck speed to the last page and the next book, the last in the series. Can teenager Gregor save Regalia. Can he become the hero that everyone excepts him to be. Will he stay, or escape Regalia back up to the streets of New York above. He won’t because he must fulfil the prophecies that mention his name, because he cannot leave behind his friends and his sister Boots, because he must fight against wrong. Gregor is an everyman hero, an ordinary boy thrown into extraordinary situations who makes unexpected friends, some enemies who become allies. He struggles with the strangeness of the Underland society with its medieval courtesies, legends and prophecies, threatening jungle and caves, rivers and caverns. Of course he will stay and fight, a fact accepted by all those who face invasion of their home. ‘He would fight because he could think of no other option.’
When the nibblers return the crown to Luxa, it is a sign, a cry for help. Could their attacker be the Bane, the white rat featured in the second book of the series. Answering the plea for help, the group of friends – lead by Luxa, her cousins Howard and Hazard, with Gregor and Boots and beings familiar from the earlier books, the bats Ares, Aurora and Nike, cockroach Temp and rat Ripred – pretend to go on a picnic and instead fly into danger. When they see a strange mark Hazard explains it is a mark of secret, a prediction of death for whoever reads it. They journey to a mice colony at the Fount but they have disappeared, next tracking the nibblers further into dangerous territory where they face death.
Another strong tale of quest, danger predictable and unseen, the strength and power of bonded characters, the waste of misguided presumptions about characters and species unknown, and the bravery of a band united with a common goal.
Bring on book five, Gregor and the Code of Claw. Read these books with a child, read them by yourself. A reminder that family is where you find it, family can be made of many shapes and beings, and that your life is what you make of it. Will Gregor and Luxa find the strength within to fight their common enemy… great stuff.
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Here are my reviews of the first three books in the series:-
GREGOR THE OVERLANDER [#1 UNDERLAND CHRONICLES]
GREGOR AND THE PROPHECY OF BANE [#2 UNDERLAND CHRONICLES]
GREGOR AND THE CURSE OF THE WARMBLOODS [#3 UNDERLAND CHRONICLES]

And try the first paragraph of THE HUNGER GAMES, also by Suzanne Collins.

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