The Traitors

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After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. The Traitors on the Dial are all children who have committed acts of betrayal against family and friends. Adam betrayed his friend and the agents from dial took him to dial for betraying his friends and made him a prisoner for 200 years.

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I would have also liked to see more of the Tally-Ho Escape Committee, whose antics form the backdrop to the story but who are shown as little more than paranoid brutes. Adults who have read The Colditz Story will recognise the scenes in this book especially the big escape plan.

I really really hate it when a good book is spoiled by the ending and sadly this one left a sour taste in my mouth. However once imprisoned, he doesn’t think about Carey and instead is drawn to Jessica for little reason other than that she’s pretty. But the ideas for the prison is well-invented, creative and it shows the dexterous capability of the author to illicit inspirational from everyday items, such as the clock.

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Ex-library book with stamps on the first page, it is also likely to have a small shelf number sticker on the spine. its a lil bit frustrating when Adam's chose to stay behind until the warphole closed just for one girl!

Like his girlfriend Alex, Tom Elderfield from The Traitors has a sizeable Instagram following and now has nearly 30,000 followers on there. Becker has managed to get the right balance of things, which occurs through plot-twists and loopholes. Together with his fellow inmates, Adam had to find out who's the mole, and try to escape the Dial once and for all.

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It is well-written, interesting and entertaining, there really isn’t much more that anyone could ask for in a book. The characters were all very flat and the story was mildly interesting so I read on to see where it was going. He’s kidnapped and taken to the Dial, a fearsome prison in an alternative dimension where the teenage inmates atone for their actions.

Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. I did not know who was who and it wasn't until later in the book I realized certain details, that were crucial to the point of the book. He won the 2007 Waterstones' Children's Book Prize with his first novel, Darkside, and has continued to blur the lines between history and fantasy in brooding adventure and horror stories such as The Traitors and While The Others Sleep.