by Flux
Summary from Goodreads:
Crack your head, knock you dead, then Prince Harming's hunger's fed.
Crack your head, knock you dead, then Prince Harming's hunger's fed.
It's 1977, and Kenny Maxwell is dreading the move away from his friends. But then, behind the walls of his family's new falling-apart Victorian home, he finds something incredible--a mummified baby and a note: "Help me make it not happen, Kenny. Help me stop him."
Shortly afterwards, a beautiful girl named Luka shows up. She introduces Kenny to the backward glass, a mirror that allows them to travel through time. Meeting other "mirror kids" in the past and future is exciting, but there's also danger. The urban legend of Prince Harming, who kidnaps and kills children, is true--and he's hunting them. When Kenny gets stranded in the past, he must find the courage to answer a call for help, change the fate of a baby--and confront his own destiny.
Shortly afterwards, a beautiful girl named Luka shows up. She introduces Kenny to the backward glass, a mirror that allows them to travel through time. Meeting other "mirror kids" in the past and future is exciting, but there's also danger. The urban legend of Prince Harming, who kidnaps and kills children, is true--and he's hunting them. When Kenny gets stranded in the past, he must find the courage to answer a call for help, change the fate of a baby--and confront his own destiny.
I'm still struggling to find words best to describe this book. This is actually not a bad thing because the book left me quite speechless and I did not expect to love it but I ended up totally awed by it.
Backward Glass is all sorts of amazing, frightening and confusing at times with teenage angst and a big mystery thrown in. You get a whole bunch of teens chosen to be time travellers through a mystery mirror/glass and of course without their meaning to it, chaos does ensues as result of such adventures. At first, it's hard to keep up with all the rules that the mirror kids had to follow but after getting to know them, it's like being a part of a cool secret club that only a few people can join.
Kenny; the main protagonist is not without his fault and sometimes his goody two-shoes attitude is kind of annoying but his determination to change the past and prevent the death of a mysterious baby inspired his fellow mirror kids to do the same.
I love how they all come together to achieve this despite coming from different time and the end result although not totally satisfying actually give readers hope that all of the mirror kids did find their own happy endings.
I really hoped that there's more stories about the mirror kids since it was hinted that there are more mirrors out there in the world involving kids from even Asia and beyond. There was even mention that the mirrors actually originated from the future since it specified time zones which the ancient kids did not know of. A further story about the place between the mirrors which was called the Silverlands by Kenny and his gang could also be explored by the author if he wants to continue this wonderful world.
As I've said before, the possibilities are endless with a time travel plot and this book certainly hits the mark!
Verdict: 5 stars.
In my Debut Author & Fantasy Reading Challenge
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