Mirrorstorm

Mirrorscape #2

by Mike Wilks, Paul English (Narrator)

Grade Level: 7-9 Age Level:12-14 Listening Level: Grades 4-6 Melkin Womper is thrilled to escape his dull future as a weaver and cultivate his artistic talents when he's apprenticed to Ambrosius Blenk, one of Vlam's most famous masters. He's particularly awed by the colors he can now use, since color is a very expensive Pleasure controlled by the scarlet-clad Fifth Mystery. But when Mel inadvertently stumbles into a battle between the Fifth Mystery and the Rainbow Rebellion, an underground band fighting to make Pleasures affordable for all, Mel and his friends, Ludo and Wren, must use Blenk's paintings as portals and enter the Mirrorscape, facing monsters and mazes, talking houses and towering trash heaps, to find the master and save him . . . and themselves.

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

Audiobook

First published June 1, 2009

About the author

Mike Wilks (British, b. 1947) began his artistic career at age thirteen when he won a scholarship to art school. He ran a successful graphic design business for five years before he sold it and began writing and illustrating books in 1975. He rocketed to fame following publication of The Ultimate Alphabet in 1986; the puzzle book sold 750,000 copies worldwide. After eight illustrated books, he established himself as a novelist with The Mirrorscape Trilogy, a fantasy adventure series.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and many private collections have acquired Wilks’s drawings and paintings. Wilks lives in London.

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. Long, wordy…

[Liam Goodman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly well written if not entirely necessary. Feels like it was made simply for profit, however the book is well written and has a good amount of twists and turns that make it worth the read along with actually transitioning into the next book.

[Miriam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Last year, a friend suggested the first book to me, Mirrorscape. Enjoyed the first one and the I was able to borrow the second one. This was a fun, action pact book, full of great characters and unexpected twists.

[Zoe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reminiscent of Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix. A decent junior fantasy series but not on the same level as either Garth Nix or Eoin Colfer.

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sequel to Mirrorscape. Good enough, but I think, on reflection, this story would have been better had the author stopped at book 1, rather than going for the trilogy.

Book 1 was brilliantly inventive, with great new and engaging characters. This follow on story did not really develop the characters but largely threw them back into the Mirrorscape for new grand adventures against the same villains, more or less.

The result was enjoyable enough, but not as engaging as the first book in the series. Sometimes stories really do work best if you don't keep pushing them further.