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Troubletwisters: Troubletwisters 1 Paperback – 1 May 2011

by Sean Williams (Author), Garth Nix (Author)

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Twins Jaide and Jack Shield are about to discover a secret - that they're Troubletwisters and must defend the world against a dark, evil force. And they're about to discover the powers that go with that secret. The exciting, mysterious first book in a major series from fantasy masters Garth Nix and Sean Williams. 'Come to us, Troubletwisters, join us . welcome, most welcome!'

When their home mysteriously explodes around their ears, twins Jack and Jaide are sent to stay with a grandmother they have never met, in a town they have never heard of. Portland might seem boring and quiet, but it soon becomes apparent that Grandma X is more than a little eccentric, and there are very strange happenings in the town. Talking cats, swarms of cockroaches, a miniature tornado trashing their room - the twins are about to find out what it means to be a troubletwister!

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Publisher : A & U Children (1 May 2011)
Language: : English
Paperback : 328 pages
ISBN-10 : 1742373984
ISBN-13 : 978-1742373980
Reading age : 8 - 12 years

Best Sellers Rank: 236,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 4,167 in Fantasy Action & Adventure
- 9,456 in Fantasy & Magic for Children

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Garth Nix is best known for his award-winning fantasies Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen and the seven books of the Keys to the Kingdom series. His books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, the Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Australian. Garth lives in Sydney with his wife and two sons.

Sean Williams is best known for his award-winning space opera series and is the number-one New York Times-best-selling author of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. He is also the author of the Broken Land trilogy for young adults and the Books of the Change. Sean lives in Adelaide with his wife and family.

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Lyn Haines

Adventure awaits in an adult free zone.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2017

Having penned well over sixty books between them, you know you're in safe hands with Garth Nix and Sean Williams and the first installment of their co-written fantasy series Troubletwisters doesn't disappoint.

Perfect for the younger 'middle grade' or 'tween' readers, Troubletwisters tells the tale of twelve year old twins Jack and Jaide who, when left to their own devices at their Grandmother's house in Portland, find themselves battling elemental forces, discovering their 'gifts' and uncovering their heritage.

'Jack's mind found the tree's shadow and slipped into it, like a fish into a stream. Following it was as easy as wishing.' pg 234

Highly recommend!

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Welcome to mayhem

Reviewed in Australia on 12 January 2015

This book is a collaboration between two of Australia's best-known authors -- Garth Nix, author of the brilliant Old Kingdom trilogy and Seven Keys series, and Sean Williams, a sci-fi/fantasy author who has written a bunch of Star Wars books.

So with that pedigree, you would expect "Troubletwisters" to be a heckuva fantasy novel, younger readers or no. However, it's merely "good," not "excellent" -- Nix and Williams spin up some truly evocative, sometimes horrifying fantastical situations, and have lovely prose. But the good vs. evil conflict feels kind of simplistic.

After a bizarre incident destroys their house, twins Jaide and Jack are left at their Grandmother X's house, in a small seaside village. The twins soon realize that there's something strange about this place, with doors no one can see and cats that talk -- but then even stranger things happen, with hordes of insects attacking them for no reason.

Eventually, their grandmother has to explain what is going on -- it turns out that an ancient, nameless Evil is trying to devour everything in our world, and her town is one of the places where it can break through. Now the twins must call on their own burgeoning "troubletwister" powers, or risk losing everything...

"Troubletwisters" suffers from being rather... typical. The plot is your basic "kids go to a strange place and discover they have special powers to stop the Forces of Evil" storyline, and both the Evil and the good guys are rather vaguely outlined. So for the first hundred-or-so pages, it feels like we've been here before.

But the plot and writing really take off once the Evil's nature is revealed, and the pedestrian concept blossoms into a fantasy thriller. The Evil is especially creepy -- a whispering, creeping horror that appears as a writhing mass of possessed creatures. Nix's talent for eerie horror comes in handy here, and it gives a real sense of urgency as the twins uncover their unique powers (and a hidden room of magical artifacts).

Jaide and Jack are pretty likable preteen protagonists, and they shine the brightest when setting out on their own separate adventures (such as Jack being trapped in a sewer with the Evil). Grandma X is a fun "eccentric" character, with her pogo sticks and amnesia tea, but it's also obvious that she's a force to be reckoned with, and the mildly arrogant cats make good "guides" for the twins (as well as a source of dry humor).

"Troubletwisters'" biggest handicap is the Percy-Jacksonesque opener, but the latter two-thirds blossom into an excellent dark fantasy -- and promises to become even more interesting in the future.

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