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Jo Fletcher Books
July 2016
On Sale: July 5, 2016
Featuring: Matyas; Simon
ISBN: 168144500X
EAN: 9781681445007
Kindle: B00ZPT3S4G
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Fantasy
Two boys, separated by hundreds of years will never know
each other--yet together they will battle a great evil at
the very heart of the world--The Child Eater.
One,
Matyas, resides in a medieval world whose power rests with
the Academy of Wizards. The other, Simon Wisdom, in
present-day America. In a town described as "the fourteenth
most livable city" in a national magazine. Their lives are
vastly different: as a boy, Matyas is viciously beaten by
his innkeeper father, yet he will grow up to become the
greatest magician. Simon is deeply loved by his widowed
father, Jack, yet even a father's dedication is helpless
against the psychic terrors that overwhelm Simon from his
earliest years.
Matyas takes refuge from his
father's violence in fantasies of magical citiesâ??then true
magic enters his life when he sees a man fly. Obsessed with
becoming a magician and fixated on learning to fly himself,
Matyas runs away to the capital, where he learns of a
mysterious, long-lost Tarot of Eternity. Matyas and Simon both suffer the same horrific visions: a
dark tunnel, pieces of bodies, disembodied heads of children
pleading for help. When a new boy's body is found without a
head Matyas learns a terrible secret: a magician can live
forever by devouring the lives of children. The magician who
does this has hidden his name so no one can work a spell
against him. He is the Child Eater.
Terrified of his
son's nightmares, Jack enlists the help of the mysterious
Dr. Reina. Soon however Simon realizes Reina means him ill.
Is this mysterious doctor really The Child Eater and Simon
is his next victim? Can the spirit of Simon's long-dead
mother and the power of Matyas' Tarrot deck save him and the
world?
With a battle against evil that stretches
across centuries, Rachel Pollack, has created a thrilling
world of magic, memory, and desire that will enchant readers
far and wide.
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