Summary: For Mattie O’Reilly, who was eleven and just a frizzy red-haired fifth grader, magic wasn’t even a remote possibility. Not in the basement of Sears in Hackensack, New Jersey anyway. But October 10, 1968, would end very differently than it began. In “Mattie Spyglass and the 8 Magic Stones,” the debut adventure novel by Shoba Sreenivasan, a mysterious antique spyglass chooses Mattie as its mistress, and hurls Mattie and her friends Eddie and Geeta, and old Mr. Herman Biddle, across the treacherous eight precious stones pursued by the evil Uri Gneezy. And what they will witness on their journey will open their eyes to threats large and small. From her own childhood, Shoba says she can recall “the feeling of wonder, of new places and new experiences, the possibility of the impossible, the ancient stories of the great battles between good and evil that run like sounds of an endless stream over stones … eight magic stones. More below the media player. Listen to Shoba Sreenivasan The Indie Author Life Publishers Weekly certain likes “Mattie Spyglass and the 8 Magic Stones”: Mattie and her friends are catapulted through the years in an attempt to destroy the spyglass before it can [...]Similar Posts:Where Magic is as Common as TechnologyThe Epic (Epic!) Story of a Magical Land in JeopardyTwenty Years Later He’s Back. But Why?Erotica Author Turns to Historical Fiction – and FindsThis Girl Is One Elf You Don’t Wanna Mess With The post An Adventure Story for the Ages appeared first on The Bookcast.
