Tiny, sassy Bob the dog, friend of The One and Only Ivan (2012), returns to tell his tale. This training proves to be more interesting than the concluding fight against villainous Genever and her twins.Ĭhris’ unresolved home life and an equally open-ended, anticlimactic ending suggest a sequel readers not yet burned out on paranormal boarding schools may look forward to it. Chris and his stereotypical mix of cohorts (the overweight bully, the foreigner with broken English, etc.) train to develop their Ability, using their brains to their full capacity, as they practice telekinesis and mind reading and prepare to protect the prime minister at the annual Antarctic Ball for children. Following a confusing transition from prologue to story, the novel centers on 12-year-old Christopher Lane, whose father died seven years ago and whose mother has been a recluse ever since.
The academy is reopened when one of those former students-the current prime minister-appears to be next on the hit list. Very much alive, plotting revenge and now known as Dulcia Genever, she, along with her adopted twin sons, has been incapacitating the students and faculty that never came to rescue her. Thirty years ago, the Myers Holt Academy, an elite and secret boarding school that housed the MI18, closed when one of its students, Anna Willows, was kidnapped and presumed dead.
For, if nothing else, Dulcia Genever did teach her son one valuable lesson: Revenge is a dish best served cold.Recruited to MI18, a top-secret British agency that employs children to gather intelligence, six preteens use their minds over high-tech gadgets to fight crime in this imported debut. Yes, he will keep his promise-Christopher Lane will die-but not until he has watched Chris lose his mind waiting for Ernest to appear. Meanwhile, alone in Darkwhisper Manor, Ernest Genever is enjoying watching Chris's torment. Chris's teachers are already concerned enough about him, especially when Chris starts to wonder if the boy may not be a figment of his imagination after all. But now that the threat of Dulcia Genever has been dealt with, his friends are too busy working for the police, entering the minds of some of the country's most dangerous criminals, to sympathize. There is no escape from the guilt, not even on his return to Myers Holt-the secret London academy where he and five others are being trained to use their mental powers, their Ability. Telekinetic preteens use their powers for good-and evil-in this mind-bending sequel to The Ability, which Publishers Weekly called a "fast-paced, superhero-tinged spy novel." Everywhere that Christopher Lane turns, he sees the face of the boy he killed.
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