This is our second attempt at writing this particular blog-post as we have found it bizarrely difficult to write a review and we've put that down to not wanting to give away any spoilers and because all we really want to say is, "If you haven't read this series, what have you been doing?! You need to read it now!"
Anyway, we're trying again, so here goes ... (and we promise: no spoilers!)
The final book in the series sees Elliot facing his biggest challenge yet: with his mum in the Underworld, and the final Chaos Stone still to be retrieved, he has a choice to make ... does he save his mum or save the world? (Just a small decision really!) Should he recover the Fire Stone & hand all 4 stones over to Thanatos in order to bring back his mum or keep them, become ruler of the universe, save mankind and never see his mum again?
And that is really all we can say without giving out any spoilers, except that this is an utterly brilliant conclusion to the series that will take you on a roller-coaster of an emotional ride in order to find out exactly how things end and what happens to Elliot, his family and the Gods.
We were very lucky to have been lent a copy of this book before its release date by some very lovely book fairies and it really was a case of drop everything and read! It even became a two book-mark book as we were both too eager to read it to wait for the other to finish! Over the 24 hours it took us to devour it, we read everywhere (almost!), including whilst walking down the corridor in school, whilst eating my lunch and before the children came into the classroom in the morning (although that one proved fatal as I ended up properly ugly, tears streaming down my face crying seconds before they arrived and they all promptly wanted to know what was wrong with me! Not the best look for a teacher but I was happy to tell them that a book had made me cry, and they were desperate to know which book had reduced their teacher to a blubbering wreck!)
This book made us laugh, cry (see above!), gasp and hug it once we'd finished it (yes, both of us!) It really does have it all!
This is such a brilliant series and we thank the Gods that Maz chose to dig her first draft of Who Let The Gods Out out of the drawer where it had lain abandoned and perfected it, for MG fiction would be a lesser place without it.
The question is ... what's next Maz?!
"Forgiveness ... even more powerful than biscuits."
This quote is now proudly displayed on the wall in my office and several children have already commented on it & quote it!!
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