He wants to be Morrigan’s patron for an organisation called The Wundrous Society containing Nevermoor’s brightest and talented minds. Instead of dying on Eventide, Morrigan finds herself whisked away by Mr Jupiter North to a place called Nevermoor, saving her from that fate and introducing her to the possibility of another. Her father is counting down the days until Morrigan is due to die on Eventide and how it will benefit him, no longer being the father of the cursed child, especially as he is the town chancellor and no longer has to calculate how the fear of a cursed child will impact on his approval rating. Both Harry and Morrigan are maligned children – in Harry’s case treated hopelessly unfairly by his unwilling guardians and in Morrigan’s she’s claimed to be ‘cursed’ and is blamed for everything that goes wrong in her town, no matter what it is. I’m not really the biggest Harry Potter expert (only read the first book) however I see some core similarities. There are plenty of comparisons to Harry Potter that I’ve heard about this one. Now that I’ve finished it, I’ll be passing it on to my oldest son, who is 9.

I decided to add it to my summer reading pile because it seemed like just the sort of book for school holidays. This was so much fun! I’d been hearing so much praise of it from every direction and I bought a copy way back in October not long after it was released. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests – or she’ll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate. Except for Morrigan, who doesn’t seem to have any special talent at all. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart. It’s there that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city’s most prestigious organisation: the Wundrous Society. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. Born on an unlucky day, she is blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks – and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnightīut as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Lotharian Children’s Books (Hachette AUS)īlurb : Nevermoor: The Trials Of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #1)

Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend