Thursday 19 May 2016



Arthur Quinn and the World Serpant by Alan Early

 
 
 
Something wicked has awoken under the streets of Dublin...

When his dad is offered a job working on the new Metro tunnel, Arthur has to move to Dublin with him. While exploring the dangerous tunnel and a hidden underground river, Arthur and his new friends Will and Ash find a mysterious glowing pendant. The pendant depicts a giant snake strangling the trunk of a tree. The friends soon figure out that the pendant is a warning, a sign that something evil is waiting underneath the city. Something thats been imprisoned for a thousand years, something left by the Vikings, something that can - and will - destroy first the city, then the world.

What did the Vikings bury under the city of Dublin and why did they leave it there? Who is the dark man that spies on Arthur and what is his evil plan? In the end, only Arthur and his friends can save the world from the dreaded World Serpent.


 
When Arthur moves to Dublin because of his Dad's job he could never guess what was going to happen next. After finding a pendant with his new friends Will and Ash, very unusual things start to happen, the pendant is connected to the Viking God Loki. A great evil snake called the Jormungand which was left behind by the Vikings and has been hidden underneath Dublin for a thousand years is woken up by work being done on the metro tunnel by the company that Arthur's Dad works for. It is up to Arthur and friends to stop the snake before it's terrible powers are unleashed!


 If you are interested in mythology, history or love a good adventure story this book is for you. This is the first in the Arthur Quinn series and our group loved it, some of us have gone on to read the nest book "Arthur Quinn and the Fenris Wolf" there is also "Arthur Quinn and Hell's Keeper" we also liked that it was set in Dublin as we knew the places in the book.



In our meeting we had a quiz and split into three groups, the score was a draw between and everyone got almost all the questions right. Arthur Quinn has a brilliant website with some really great links and activities, there is all kinds of extra info about the characters and a really great  breaking news item on it. We also did an Arthur Quinn wordsearch and maze, we would recommend this book.

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