Roderick Gordon

This series is turning into one drawn out infomercial. Every time it should end the writers come back with “but wait, there's more”. Are they under some sort of contractual obligation to produce 6, or heavens forbid, even more books out of this one story, so that they have to keep dropping old plot points and introducing new ones?

The real shame is that the writers write well and could have woven many more stories out of all the plot details they put into just this one. If you've gotten show more this far then it's too late to save yourself, you'll buy the next (and next and next?) to see how the story ends, just like a smoker who can't quit even as he dies of cancer. show less

Will Burrows es un chico de 14 años que tiene una particular afición que comparte con su padre: a ambos les encanta excavar en busca de tesoros y nuevos descubrimientos. Así descubre que, bajo el mismo Londres, existen túneles que no constan en ningún mapa y puertas olvidadas durante siglos. Pero… ¿adónde llevan? Un día el padre del muchacho, el Dr. Burrows, desaparece misteriosamente luego de descubrir unas raras personas que andan por la ciudad. Will decide ir en su busca con la show more compañía de su único e inseparable amigo Chester. Lo que no saben es que se encontrarán con un mundo paralelo al suyo gobernado por extraños, peligrosos y despiadados personajes... show less

Read at the urging of my son - who loved it. A highly imaginative and fast-paced story of an undiscovered underground civilization under London ruled by a brutal and paranoid class of alien-like creatures whose influence reaches above ground as well.

I wanted to like this book more than I did...It seemed way too long for what happened in it, and seemed a lot like other recent books, only those other books were better, in my opinion. However, it does have moments that really work, especially in the second half where the boys are running away and then running back to save their friend...I do think boys might enjoy this, if they can get through the slow start.