it is a good for peple how like adventures this a great book for kids that also in to mysyeres ( )

I had a hard time getting into this book. The only character I found likeable was the Clocker, the others seemed far too forced. The dialogue was bland and the flow of the book was choppy. ( )

Fantasy set in modern London. From book "A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living." Twelve-year-old George Chapman breaks the head off a stone dragon and his adventure begins. Georges action upset the fragile trues of the stone statues and carvings of modern London. He must survive attacks by stone gargoyles, dragons and other soulless creations to make restorations for the turmoil he has caused. ( )

This is basically Neverwhere for children. Yes, the details of the story are different, but a boy living in London does something that results in him slipping into an alternate London existing sort of as another layer of what we consider the real London. He must complete a quest to return to his London, but as he races to complete his quest in time, he makes friends who care more about him than anyone in the real world does (sadly, this seems to include his mother, who we never really meet, but seems to be a self-centered wannabe actress), and in the end he must make the decision about whether or not he really wants to return to the real world.

I guess this isn't a bad book, but I was more than a quarter of the way into the book before I was able to get into it and start caring about the characters. It seems this is the first of an intended trilogy, but I do not feel inclined to buy the next book.

A pretty good fantasy at about middle school level.. George breaks the head off of a stone dragon and his world begins to change. Suddenly, he can see that statues are alive. Not only that, he is in danger; some statues are out to kill him while others help him. I was a bit disappointed by the non-ending. You are brought to the brink of the story, but have to wait for the sequel. ( )