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Necropolis

NECROPOLIS
By Anthony Horowitz

Recently, I have read a very enjoyable book called “Necropolis”, which is the fourth book in Anthony Horowitz’s series, The Power of Five.

The book is about a girl called Scarlett Adams, who, at the age of thirteen, is almost killed by a speeding truck, and was saved by a stranger. Two years later, her mother and father have split and she goes on a school trip to Shoreditch while studying the Blitz. On the trip, Scarlett goes through a door in a church and ends up in a completely different place, where monks capture her. She is told by a monk called Father Gregory that she is in Ukraine and that she is in the Monastery of the Cry for Mercy. She is then told that she has lived before as one of Gatekeepers that defeated the devils, known as the Old Ones, ten thousand years ago. She later escapes and manages to go back through the door and back into London, where she has been gone eighteen hours and everyone has gone into a frenzy over her disappearance. Believing herself to have imagined that such a thing happened to her, and realising that no one would believe her, she refuses to tell anyone what happened to her. In Peru, one of other Gatekeepers, Matt Freeman realises who Scarlett really is, one of the old Gatekeepers, Scar, and he and his three companions Richard, Pedro, Jamie and Scott set out to find her. Chaos insures as Scarlett travels to Hong Kong to see her father…and is put in serious danger.

I enjoyed this book as it was very interesting and there was always something exciting happening. Also, it captured a real atmosphere of Hong Kong. It explained its characters in great detail too, but overall, it told a great story.
MARK (St Ninians High School)