Genre: Young Adult
Sub Genre: Science Fiction;
Amusement Park of the Past, London, Victorian Times
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
Back Cover: A dream of the past, a
nightmare of the future in the greatest theme park ever devised. What if all of
London were really an amusement park – a whole city returned to Victorian times
to entertain visitor from the twenty-first century? That’s the wildly original
premise of Ian Beck’s Pastworld, a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past.
Eve is a lifelong resident of Pastworld who doesn’t know she’s living in a
theme park until a mysterious threat forces her to leave home. Caleb is a
visiting tourist who finds the lawlessness of the past thrilling – until he
suddenly becomes a fugitive from an anticquated justice system. And in the
midst of it all, in the thick London fog a dark and deadly figure prowls,
claiming victim after victim. He’s the Fantom, a creature both of the past and
of the present, in whose dark purpose Caleb and Eve will find their destinies
combined.
This is a story that mixes the old world with Science
fiction. Think of it as being a world that people can go and visit the old
Victorian London. The people there do not know that they live in an amusement
park. Then they through in the element of murder, a killer that scares those
who live there. This is such a page turning mystery. I felt like I was there
running in the streets trying to work things out with the other characters. I
really enjoyed this story. It was very imaginative and well written.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s
Books
ISBN: 1599905299
Pages: 368
Series:
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