There’s a dark power lurking in the empty house set down a long, lonely track. When a group of teenagers break in, they find a box of children’s books. Not any old books. There is something special about one book. It holds an unusual power; once the story has begun, no one can stop listening to it. Soon two worlds look set to collide in a thrilling story packed with danger.
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A brilliant supernatural thriller with a modern twist, and a triumphant return from one of Britain's best-loved writers.
At the end of a track, on the outskirts of an ordinary coastal town, lies a dilapidated house. Once, a group of amateur ghost hunters spent the night there. Two of them don't like to speak about the experience. The third can't speak about it. He went into the basement, you see, and afterwards he screamed so hard and so long he tore his vocal cords.
Now, a group of teenagers have decided to hang out in the old haunted house. Dismissing the fears of the others, their leader Jezza goes down into the basement… and comes back up with a children's book, full of strange and colourful tales of a playing-card world, a fairytale world, full of Jacks, Queens and Kings, unicorns and wolves.
But the book is no fairytale. Written by Austerly Fellows, a mysterious turn-of-the-century occultist, it just might be the gateway to something terrifying…and awfully final. As the children and teenagers of the town are swept up by its terrible power, swept into its seductive world, something has begun that could usher in hell on earth. Soon, the only people standing in its way are a young boy with a sci-fi obsession, and his dad - an unassuming maths teacher called Martin…
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Dancing Jax and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-14 years old
Dancing Jax features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 13+ readers
Dancing Jax is available in Paperback, Hardback
Dancing Jax was written by Robin Jarvis and published by HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Dancing Jax has 534 pages