Necropolis (Gatekeepers Series #4) by Anthony Horowitz
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- Age Range: 12 and up
- Pub. Date: April 2009
- 400pp
- Sales Rank: 2,149
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- Series: Gatekeepers Series, #4
- ISBN-13: 9780439680035
- ISBN: 0439680034
Synopsis
As the fourth novel in the spellbinding Gatekeepers series begins, the world is under the greatest threat it's ever known. The evil corporation Nightrise has amassed an immense amount of power . . . and the devastating force of the Old Ones is about to be unleashed around the globe. To stop this from happening, Matt and three of the Gatekeepers head to Hong Kong--not just the modern city of skyscrapers and wealth, but the secretive underworld beneath. In Hong Kong they will meet the final Gatekeeper, a girl named Scarlet, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own....
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In Book 4 of the Gatekeepers series, readers meet Scarlett, the fifth and last of the Gatekeepers and the only girl. Scarlett was born in Indonesia but was adopted and has been living in England. At fifteen, she is just beginning to realize that there is something different about her, and she frequently has dreams about the other four Gatekeepers: Matt, Pedro, Scott, and Jamie. Scarlett's father works for the mysterious Nightrise Corporation, headquartered in Hong Kong. The city is being taken over by the Old Ones, and is covered in a sinister haze of pollution. When Scarlett is called to join her father there, Matt and Jamie head for Hong Kong to pull her out and to bring her to join the rest of the Gatekeepers. In the course of the book, readers learn a little more about the Old Ones and begin to understand what the final confrontation between the Gatekeepers and the Old Ones will be like. Although there are many action-filled sequences and Scarlett is an interesting new addition to the cast of characters, this book is clearly primarily a setup for the finale. Fans of the series will naturally want to read it and prepare themselves for the final great battle. Reviewer: Sarah Flowers
Biography
Anthony Horowitz is the author of one previous book for teens: The Devil and His Boy, which received glowing reviews all around. He is also the author of several plays and television screenplays in his native England.
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Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.comby TeensReadToo
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August 09, 2009: The first strange event in the life of Scarlett Adams was the day she was rescued from certain death when she innocently stepped into the path of a speeding white van. She would have liked to thank the Chinese man who bravely swooped her out of harm's way, but he disappeared into the crowd.
Scarlett always knew she was adopted. Born in China, she was brought to England by Paul Adams and his wife. Her life was one of excess and privilege, but it was spent mostly with a live-in housekeeper and at her exclusive private school. Both her adoptive parents were busy with important careers, and when they announced they were divorcing, it was sad but not totally unexpected. Scarlett was content to continue attending her private school and living in the house with the housekeeper.Another odd part of Scarlett's life was the dream she had on a fairly regular basis. Always set in a vast wasteland, it involved a familiar character named Matt. She always felt a strange connection with Matt and the feeling that they would one day meet.Scarlett's world suddenly changes when she receives a message from her father requiring that she join him in Hong Kong. The message makes her suspicious the moment she reads it, and things become even more bizarre as she boards a plane for the other side of the world. She's met at the airport by people who tell her her father has been called away on important business, but they have been assigned to handle her care until he returns.Readers of NECROPOLIS will immediately recognize that Scarlett is the fifth member of the Gatekeepers. Matt, Pedro, Scott, and Jamie are the other four talented teens whose duty is to save the world from destruction by The Old Ones. The five are the reincarnations of five who came before them and attempted to save the world in the past.Anthony Horowitz uses his talent as an adventure writer to create the breathtaking world of monsters and shape-changers bent on the death and destruction of humankind. THE GATEKEEPERS adventures will satisfy even the most hard-to-please readers with bloody battles, last-minute getaways, massive insect swarms, and one double-cross after another.Readers will now have to anxiously await Book #5 to find out how the adventure is to continue.a horowitz maserpieceby Quillian
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August 03, 2009: the fourth book in the gatekeepers series, horowitz pulls out all the stops for this one. a good read, keeps you guessing until the end, and still leaves questions unanswered, undoubtedly, to be answered in the next, and probably last book of the series. lots of action, suspense, twists,and the introduction of the last gatekeeper as she tries to figure out her power keeps you on your feet till the open-ended conclusion. There were some confusing elements to it though, that you will probably find as you read. despite them though, I highly reccomend this book to the fans of horowitz and the series.
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