Recent Reads - Here, There Be Dragons

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Here, There Be Dragons (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica) by James A. Owen - I saw this YA fantasy recommended by a fellow blogger and her review inspired me to hunt it up at my library and give it a try. I was also hoping my daughter would read it, but she is too busy with other things these days, but perhaps in the summer. Anyway, the book opens with three young men - John, Jack, and Charles - meeting under the strange circumstances of an Oxford professor's death. The professor had been tutoring John in ancient languages and there was something extremely odd about his murder. The three soon meet a strange little man called Bert that tells them they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, which is an atlas of all the lands of myth and legend, and they soon find themselves on Bert's dragonship leaving World War London and traveling to the Archipelago of Dreams.

It appears the mysterious Winter King has been conquering parts of the archipelago and the lands he has taken have become Shadow-lands. His goal is to claim the Silver Throne and control the entire archipelago, and this is what the Caretakers must stop. The three companions, along with Bert and his daughter Aven, and a young knight-in-training, must work together to overcome challenges and deceptions and their own fears and doubts in order to save the lands of the Imaginarium. 

Many of the characters they meet and their adventures may seem familiar to readers, and give clues to the twist at the end, which I will not give away!

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