The Shadow Lantern (The Blackhope Enigma, #3) Teresa Flavin Hardcover, 272 pages Published July 22nd 2014 by Templar (first published May 1st 2013) more details... ISBN 0763664367 (ISBN13: 9780763664367) I enjoyed the Shadow Lantern by Teresa Flavin. The story follows Sunni and Blaise as they d...
I tried with this one, as it sounded like quite a fun MG offering, but it did not catch my interest. At all.
I found a copy of The Blackhope Enigma last year and immediately fell in love with the cover. To my delight, the story was just as good, leaping through many magical paintings and meeting a whole host of strange characters! In this story, set about a year later, Dean doesn't make an appearance (yey!...
A new favorite for sure. Teresa Flavin blends magic, art history and mythology into a wonderful adventure. Sunni and Blaise are art students studying the Medeival painter Fausto Corvo for a school project. When Sunni, her step-brother Dean & Blaise go to The Blackhope Tower to see Corvo's famous pai...
Being transported through/into paintings is hardly a new gimmick in fantasy (especially aimed at the younger set) but it is one that I like. I give Flavin credit for actually developing the world-inside-the-painting a bit, instead of making it extremely limited and static as many authors do with thi...
The last book I read about people dissapearing into magical paintings was Mirrorscape... and that was awful. This, however is a mystical, imaginative take on an old idea. The character's are a little cheesy - Sunni, who has a crush on someone way older than her, her annoying younger brother and the ...