A fantastic fantasy story for that difficult 8 - 12 years old age group that can also be enjoyed by older readers, too. This story involves a young girl, Ennara, who knows she is someone special as she was born with a caul and has the mark denoting her potential magical ability tattooed on her wrist. He aunt has been teaching her magical theory, but Ennara has never had chance to use her abilities until now . . .

The author creates a world which is believable and young readers will easily relate to Ennara and the other characters, their feelings, anxieties, excitement and fears. Ennara has kept her tattoo hidden from others for most of her life because her family know how others would react to finding out her special abilities. Attacks on her, her home village and country by the mysterious shadowy demons necessitate Ennara embarking on a journey to retrieve a magical sword with the master magician Tork, who is a family friend. The adventures start in the very first chapter and continue throughout the book. Her first experiment at using magic is hilarious! It is a lively paced, well written and a thoroughly enjoyable read that I have no hesitation in recommending! I believe children who are starting to read books with chapters in them will really enjoy this - it will certainly appeal to anyone who enjoys magical stories, young Merlin style adventures and contains some brilliant characters - like Smoos (a fantastic marine cat), a variety of monsters (I'll never look at a puddle of water in the same way again), dark magic and a heroine who is just learning how to perform magic as well as a worrying prophecy she has just learnt about! whilst the book comes to an appropriate ending, it also has strong links to the next book in the series - I want to read that, too, soon!

What a great book to start a young reader into a fantasy genre! Many children will be intrigued by all characters; a wizard, monsters and the children that are on the adventure.

Ennara is an eleven year old heroine within the story, she has been sent on a mission to go to the Sunken City. There she will find a sword that will help her fight to save her city that has been under attack. A curse has been changing people into shadowy demons and no one knows how to stop them. Along the way Ennara meet a bunch of colorful characters and fought pirates, monsters, and an undead sorcerer!

Many girls will enjoy reading this story, since the lead heroine is a girl, they might be able to relate more to the story. There were also some lessons stuck into the story, which I loved. Not sure if it was done intentionally, but I caught them and enjoyed them.

Angela Myron did a great job creating a world full of imagination, which will allow children to immerse into Ennara’s world and love every minute of it!

i loved this book. it was full of fun and adventure