Title: Heroes of the Valley
Author: Jonathan Stroud
Year: 2009
Publisher: Disney/Hyperion
491 pages
I'm always delighted with Jonathan Stroud's ability to immediately set a tone and basic assumptions of the book's world. Heroes of the Valley has some resonance with Stroud's other single-volume young adult novels, though it has more of an explicit fantasy-genre style (with an undertone of horror thrown in). This book raises questions of the nature of tales and their veracity. With strong male and female protagonists and moments of great humor, this should appeal to fans of Sage's Septimus Heap series, though perhaps not those of Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy.
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