The Power of Five: Raven's Gate

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Raven's Gate is the first of five books in The Power Of Five series, written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published and released in the UK on 1 August 2005, by Walker Books Ltd and in the US (June 1, 2005) by Scholastic Press under the adjusted series title TRC: You've stated that The Gatekeepers series is your answer to Narnia, Lord of the Rings and other fantasy heavyweights. How much have these other works inspired you?

Raven's Gate won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year award in 2006. This is Horowitz's second time winning this award after his first win in 1989 for his children's novel Groosham Grange. [1] Adaptations [ edit ] One night Matt wanders towards the forest where he fiends all the village gathered, children and all. Some people unloading a box. Matt touches a trap which alarms Jayne Deverill his cruel and odd fosterer. She magically summons three hounds who chase Matt until he falls in the bog but he is rescued by Richard the journalist. He teLos him his story and his precongnitive abilities and how he can for see the future and move items with his mind. Richard accepts and they meet the creator of the building where the ritual was taking place.

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Since Matt is too young (he's fourteen) to be put behind bars, he volunteers to get into a foster home under the LEAF (Liberty and Education Achieved through Fostering) project, as he is not happy living with Gwenda, his mother's half-sister. The only thing I'd warn parents about is that there's a lot of violence in the book, with one character dying graphically in the course of the book. Since each parent is different when it comes to this sort of thing, I recommend that the parents read the book first & then discuss the content with their child after they've finished reading it. The book is quite good, so the parents shouldn't have any problem reading it. (Plus it's a great way to connect with your kid!) Later, they meet Mrs. Ashwood whonteels them to understand the mystery of he ravens gat they must seek Dr Dravid who is a me member of the nexus organisation which keeps the world out of harm. They seek Dravid and he tells that that ravens fate is a monument of stones built by five people four bogs and one girl to prevent evil creatures ccalled the "Old Ones" from entering the earth. Dr. Dravid is killed by dinosaur spirits but Matt and Richard barely escape but get.caught by Jayne Deverill and Noah assistant to Jayne. Maybe it's just the fact that the characters are all 14 year olds and there's very little I can find to relate to them. I understood Richard's predicament better. Also, there were some parts that we just boring but I think that's more my impatience to get on with the story than anything to do with the book. He has suspicions that all the villagers are planning a conspiracy about something. He googles the Ravens Gate but finds nothing and gets a chat window with Dr.Dravid who be asks about but Dr leaves. He goes to the Lesser Mapping journalist to buy newspaper but the Journalist Richard asks for his story which he gladly tells but Richard does not believe him at all and sends him away.

Raven’s Gate is a wonderfully creepy and utterly captivating novel and, while it’s not for everyone, it is an excellent read and something which I highly recommend. It has a vat of face-melting acid. What more do you really need? What do you get when you mix elements of Harry Potter, Stephen King, and Night at the Museum together? You get Raven’s Gate. In the nearby village of Lesser Malling, Matt meets Jayne’s sister, Claire, whom he recognizes from his fever dream. Claire has a disfiguring birthmark, and all the other villagers, too, seem to be disfigured or mentally ill or both. One apparently normal man, Tom Burgess, warns Matt to flee the village.

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Matt, mate, you’re braver than me. I would have given up at the beginning and been sobbing in the corner for the rest of the novel. Only Jayne Deverill of a farm in Lesser Malling is strange and potentially more dangerous than any jail. Raven's Gate combines the magic and savagery out of primeval times with the science and 'controls' of the modern day. Raven's Gate is the first in a series of 5 books by Anthony Horowitz. The first book follows Matt, a young boy who has been enrolled into the LEAF program after being a somewhat unwilling accomplice in what should have been a simple snatch & grab theft. He's sent to the home of Ms. Deverill, a sinister old lady with whom Matt instantly distrusts. Matt soon discovers that there's something sinister going on, & that if he's not careful he will end up as one of the latest casualties in the town of Lesser Malling. Idiot me. My idea was that women who were considered witches in the medieval times were slaughtered by a number of methods: Fire, drowning...

Fourteen-year-old Matt Freeman is an orphan in a lot of trouble. After he's caught stealing he is funneled into the LEAF system, a new program that England has put in place to deal with youthful offenders. Through LEAF, Matt is "fostered" with the evil Mrs. Deverill, a satanic witch bent on torturing Matt. Everyone Matt gets close to has a bad habit of ending up dead and no one can seem to tell him about something called Raven's Gate - a mysterious place that is somehow tied to Matt's own psychic abilities. Personajul principal este un pusti pe nume Matt Freeman care mi s-a parut destul de simpatic si credibil in drama sa, iar vrajitoarea, doamna Deverill, care pune ghearele pe el, a fost preferata mea, avand doza corecta de rautate si inteligenta. Mi-au placut puterile si magiile ei precum si faptul ca ucenicul sau este o pisica neagra pe nume Asmodeus, care intelege ce spune ea si ii indeplineste ordinele cu abnegatie. Reread 2022: It's been awhile since I've read this and I still love it just the same as my first read! It's such a unique story and even as an adult I was still riveted. It's always disappointed me though with this series that it went downhill for me from book 3. Hoping I feel differently about this series as a whole now that I'm reading it 15 years later.It's like a bad B-horror movie, but without the charm to make it "so bad it's good", so it's left just being "so bad it's mediocre" which is just completely bad. I listened to the audiobook version of this novel. It's possible that some of my disappointment with the book stems from the poor reading it was given. The narrator, Simon Prebble, has a very deadpan voice with little vocal range or variation. It could certainly have been done much better. Raven's Gate is the first book in The Power of Five series, written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published and released in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2005, by Walker Books Ltd and in the United States (1 June 2005) by Scholastic Press under the adjusted series title The Gatekeepers. It is followed by Evil Star, released in 2006, Nightrise in 2007, and Necropolis in 2008, with the final book Oblivion in 2012. Raven's Gate is the re-written form of The Devil's Door Bell (published 1985), I can't comment on what has and hasn't changed in the text of this version and Anthony Horowitz's book published over twenty years ago. I do know that the Pentagram Chronicles was a series that was never finished. I think that The Gatekeepers is finished. Characters with no depth. A story less than original and written without the slight finesse. The words and (basic) descriptions are just dumped on the paper.

In the next few weeks, a society named the Nexus, to which Dravid belonged, tells Matt and Richard that another gate is opening in Peru. Before proceeding with the review, I would like to thank Laura Pent for sending the book to me and luring me into reading it! Seriously. This was the best thing that ever happened to me! Okay, that was too dramatic. But you get the point.A graphic novel adaptation written for Walker Books by UK writer Tony Lee and drawn by artists Dom Reardon and Lee O'Connor was released on 3 August 2010. It was then re-issued with a new cover to coincide with then upcoming releases of the graphic novel adaptations for Evil Star and Nightrise on 6 June 2013. I have to agree with a previous reviewer that the reporter, Richard, seemed like something straight out of Stephen King's _Salem's Lot_, but less believable. His sudden attachment to Matt was jarring in the face of all his "just a story" talk from before. His surviving at all defies believability and it's obvious that he's only there because he'll be serving the function in the next book of an adult who can do things/get around obstacles that Matt can't, as well as providing a place for Matt to stay so the government can't get hold of him again. It's a useful purpose, true, but one that another adult should've been found for so Richard maintained his believability as a character. He is sent to live with Jayne Deverill in Lesser Malling (a village). Clearly, Jayne Deverill is not pleasant and Investigator Mallory sympathizes with him. The book had so many elements. Throw in a little Stephen King, Night at the Museum, some magic and beautiful writing.. POOF! You get the perfect book. This is a pretty good book. I wouldn't say there were any memorable moments that I really adored, but the overall story was quite interesting. It had quite a pace and barely slowed down. I was hooked from the start and I am definitely going to read the rest of the series. Eventually. But there was something missing. Don't get me wrong, it was suspenseful. It should be a mini-series.