The Tourmaline: Eleyfa's Guardian

ISBN-13: 9781502901910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 290 str.

Karen E. James

Opis

Volatile but undeniably talented, London teenager, Aaron, distrusts most people apart from his incarcerated cousin. When he attacks a fellow pupil to defend his birth mother's honour, his head teacher gives him a fixed-term exclusion, and his foster parents send him to a character-building residential camp for mild delinquents near mystical Stonehenge. But soon, Aaron starts to hear strange whispers in his head, and he realises his stay at the camp is not going to be any more trouble-free than his usual urban life. Supernatural forces work to entice Aaron into another world, Eleyfa, where he encounters Maya, an eighteen-year-old resistance fighter who enlists his help to escape from her cell. Under her tutelage, Aaron develops into a freedom fighter serving the peoples oppressed by the power-holding Baltaks. He is repelled by the Baltaks' segregationist system, in which those races deemed to be 'inferior' are forced to work in return for basic subsistence, but he is enriched by hearing legends which explain the origins of the people's different powers. Gradually, he discovers he is able to fulfil, and even surpass, his true potential in his new environment, and he embarks upon a quest to recover the powerful, healing stone known as the Tourmaline. Accompanied by a range of entertaining, endearing characters, he not only struggles to help the downtrodden Eleyfan rebels overturn the Baltaks' rule of tyranny but also learns to respect their conservationist, pacific ideals along the way. The Tourmaline is a daring fantasy novel for young adults which, with humorous touches, juxtaposes urban life with a fantastical world where paranormal powers are used to both combat and perpetuate social inequality.