When she was a child she was mauled by wolves and left for dead. One messy, inexplicable fact in her otherwise staid existence. Yeah, Grace has one thing that consumes her. She just makes dinner, does her homework, and quietly obsesses about the wolves in the woods. And since she's never known any different, and they are her parents, the eminently practical Grace made her peace with it a long time ago. Wrapped up in themselves and their careers, they are aggravatingly oblivious, managing to check in with their seventeen-year-old daughter in the unlikely event it occurs to them. Oh, her parents are there but nigh unto incapable. Ridley to my growing list of authors that prove small independent presses and self-publishing produce excellent works of fiction.At the edge of the woods in Mercy Falls, Grace lives alone. Horror and YA (with the notable exceptions of Potter and Eragon) are usually not my genres of choice, but I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it to fans of both genres.Īs a side note, I will add R.W. The ending comes quickly, but sets up the second in the series nicely, leaving some questions to be answered but solving many of the puzzles. I read The Takers straight through as the action and the quest continue unabated through the book. A comic book written by the afore mentioned “retarded boy” holds the key to the mysteries and the quest involving Oz, baby Nate and the Takers. Here, the mystery of the Takers (who are they, where did they come from) begins to unfold, as Oz and his growing army of misfit survivors (including a sign-language speaking gorilla named Ajax who understands more about what is happening with the Takers than he can say) do battle with several of the monsters. His quest begins when he is given responsibility for a baby named Nate, whose mother is taken, so he piles up his wagon, takes a sword from Nate’s father’s study, and proceeds to the big city. Thirteen-year old Oz awakens from a fever induced slumber to find his world dramatically changed, his parents and most of the other people on his block “taken” and seemingly eaten by nightmarish monsters who appear and attack when their name is spoken. The second in the series, Delon City, is now published and is definitely on my reading list. This debut novel (published in 2005) is well paced, with a great quest/adventure and and several likable characters, including the main protagonist, Osmond (Oz) Griffin. Ridley’s YA Horror series The Oz Chronicles. Thus begins The Takers, the first book in R.W.
He took his own life, but we killed him just the same. 5 stars: Fast-paced ride in a new YA Horror series winner of the 2006 IPPY for Horror
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