The Dark

by Marianne Curley

Overview

Isabel's brother, Matt, has been named in a Prophecy, not just as a member of the Guard but as their eventual leader. But the promise of great power in the future does not mean his gifts will come easily. His apprenticeship to Ethan is proving more frustrating than helpful.While Matt tries to grow accustomed to life in the Guard, the Order of Chaos strikes into the very heart of the Named, kidnapping Arkarian, their ageless mentor. He is taken to dark world so difficult to traverse all are forbidden to rescue him. But an ever-increasing connection to Arkarian drives Isabel to risk everything to find him despite the potential consequences, taking Ethan and one other with her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648263623
Publisher:	Mtc Services Pty Limited
Publication date:	04/08/2019
Series:	Guardians of Time , #2
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.84(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Marianne Curley is a native of Australia. She has found writing for young adults both challenging and satisfying. Today she has three teenage children, whose conversations and experiences inspire her writing. They are also her fervent critics. She is also the author of Old Magic.

www.mariannecurley.com

Editorial Reviews

Isabel, her friend Ethan, and her brother Matt are members of The Named, introduced in the launch title of the Guardians of Time series by Marianne Curley. Having sworn to defend the past against evil forces that would distort history itself, now the trio must join together against the vengeful Goddess of Chaos to rescue their mentor Arkarian from the horrific underworld in The Dark. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Gr 7-9-A sequel to The Named (Bloomsbury, 2002), with ample introductions to characters and plot developments from that book. Lathenia controls the forces of the dark while her brother, Lorian, fights with the Named, nine ordinary humans with extraordinary gifts, to stop her. In this book, Arkarian, one of the most powerful of the Named, has been abducted and imprisoned by Lathenia in the furthest reaches of the Underworld. Isabel and Ethan, ordinary high school students by day and Guardians of Time by night, decide to attempt a rescue, joined by Isabel's brother Matt, newly Named but still untested and untrained in any special gift. Meanwhile, various combinations of the Named carry out several missions, visiting medieval France to protect the child who will become Arkarian's mother, and ancient Rome to prevent injury to Octavius, future emperor. Plot action dominates this story, with awkward attempts to add romance to the tangled relationships among the main characters. The novel is poorly written, with sentence fragments and awkward constructions popping up throughout. There is an incongruous use of knees and fists by characters who can send energy bolts from their fingertips, but it does give Isabel ample practice in using her gift of healing power on all the broken bones and bleeding wounds. Ultimately, several loose ends are tied up, but new questions arise that will presumably be addressed in the next installment of this series. There is enough action and excitement here to keep nondiscriminating readers involved, but little else.-Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

Another helping of time-travel fantasy, heavy on the melodrama, in a sequel to The Named (2002). The Goddess of Chaos, irate that the Guardians of Time defeated her lover Marduke, abducts Arkarian, the ageless wizard of the Guard, and imprisons him in a dark dimension of unending torture. Although the Immortal leader of the Guard expressly forbids any rescue attempt, three of the Named-the impetuous Ethan, his former Apprentice Isabel, and Isabel's brother Matt-dare to go after their mentor. Their ventures through medieval France, ancient Rome, and finally the nightmarish underworld, would be laughably anachronistic and badly sketched were they not so clearly secondary to the heart-wringings of teenage angst. Will Isabel and Arkarian ever acknowledge that they are soulmates, or will his eternal youth and her former crush on Ethan get in the way? Will Ethan and Matt ever reconcile their friendship, torn apart over the traitor they both loved? And who could be Arkarian's father? Pure soap-opera fluff with only the lightest sprinkling of the fantastic; but fans will eat it up with a spoon. (Fantasy. YA)

Kirkus Reviews