Although the themes are of societal importance even in the
modern mundane world, and the character development is
finely-honed and excellent, that childish wonder of "what
would it be like to wander around a body as though it were
a world?" digs in deep throughout the work. In the third of
this series, Brian and Gregory are immersed in The Great
Body, and their understanding of the the Norumbegans is put
to the test: the heavily-oppressed machines are staging a
resistance, and the boys are caught in the middle,
literally. As one of their closest companions is a machine,
being nonmechanical has never seemed like such an
impediment to understanding.
Although the work is extremely
interesting and intricate, this is a series that requires
readers to immerse themselves in the previous books first
The Game of Sunken Places and the Suburb Beyond
the Stars
expertly set the stage for the feelings of unreality and
dystopic nightmare that THE EMPIRE OF GUT AND BONE so
brilliantly portrays.
Murder! Mystery! Rebellion! From bestselling and National
Book Award-winning author M.T. Anderson, a third visit to
the world of THE GAME OF SUNKEN PLACES.The land of New
Norumbega is an unusual one--an empire of gut and bone, a
kingdom of blood and mucus. At its dark, dry heart is a
ruling class that doesn't care about much besides itself . .
. and a ruler who is (literally) a one-eyed stump of flesh.
Brian and Gregory have come to New Norumbega for a
reason--to get the Norumbegans to help them thwart an alien
attack back home on earth. But instead, the two boys find
themselves caught up in both a robot rebellion and a murder
mystery after one of the Norumbegan leaders is sent to sleep
. . . permanently. In New Norumbega, it's very hard to know
who to trust. There are assassins around every corner, and
secrets pave every conversation. Brian and Gregory will be
lucky to make it out alive, never sure if they are meant to
catch the murderer . . . or be the killer's next victim.
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