The Revognase

The Quentaris Chronicles #4

by Lucy Sussex

Life in the city of Quentaris is never dull. Three teenagers - a diver, a fighter and a thief - play a game of magical pass-the-parcel. Find out what happens when all their wishes come true.

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction

158 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

About the author

Lucy Sussex's books include Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, which won the 2015 Victorian Community History Award, Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century and Saltwater in the Ink: Voices from the Australian Seas. She has a PhD from the University of Wales and is an honorary fellow at La Trobe University. Her forthcoming book is Outrageous Fortunes.

Reviews

[Sue Bursztynski · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was great fun, as was the series in general. It was a shared-world scenario, one of a series of children's books set in the thoroughly delightful city of Quentaris, which was based on the Italian Renaissance city-states, but which, IMO, closely resembled Terry Pratchett's Ankh-Morpork. Only, it has a thing called the Rift, which leads to other worlds, meaning any author writing a book in the series had an excuse to have invaders, visitors, or trips to, other worlds. I think The Revognase may be the novel that introduced the city's female police chief, a character I loved in all the books. The series was unfortunately scrapped when the publisher was taken over by Hachette - really unfortunate for me, too, because I had been invited to write a Quentaris novel , dammit! :-(

If you 're curious, I think two of the books - though not this one - are currently available on iBooks. You might have to search your library or secondhand bookshop to read more.