![]() It's a long series of short books, and if the rest of them are anything like the first, their plots are cliche and simplistic. However, if your child just wants something to read, Beast Quest isn't the worst thing you can pick up. If your child's a little older than the target audience for the Deltora series, I'd suggest Harry Potter (MG/YA wizard-focused fantasy set in 1990's Britain, in case you somehow don't know), Percy Jackson (MG mythological fantasy set in modern America), or Song of the Lioness (YA feminist fantasy set in the fictional kingdom of Tortall). It's more interesting, the writing is better, and it has two sequel series and an anime adaptation. For the younger audience who aren't ready for books over 100 or 200 pages, I'd suggest starting with Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest. If you're really trying to excite your children about the fantasy, Beast Quest isn't the series I would suggest. If they haven't seen all the stock characters and cliche plots before this, Beast Quest might be something they'll enjoy it might even be something that they'll look back on with nostalgia when they're all grown up (and hopefully have moved on to fantasy works of far better quality). Beast Quest might be a good starting point for children to get involved in the fantasy genre. We've all seen the evil overlords and sorcerers, the good wizards, the brave children, the missing father, and all the other fantasy cliches of Ferno the Fire Dragon over and over and over again.īut I think the thing to keep in mind with Beast Quest is that the target audience might not have seen all this before. I've seen the "two or three ten-year-olds who are for some reason the only people capable of or brave enough to completely this world-saving mission" plot more times than anyone can count. I've seen the "animals/monsters brainwashed by the nefarious McGuffin" plot plenty of times. my point is that there's absolutely nothing here that hasn't been done before. No! The Shikon no Tama shards? Chimera animas? Or-oh, whatever. Wait, no-that's the Digimon Emperor's Control Spires. ![]() Rather, it's a series in which two preteens, Tom and Elenna of Avantia, go on a quest to save the mythological Beasts-guardians of Avantia-from the brainwashing powers of Devimon's Black Gears. If you, like I, were worried that Adam Blade's Beast Quest would be an extremely black-and-white adventure series about children pointlessly slaughtering Always Chaotic Evil "monsters", you can stop worrying. Sadly, Adam does not have his own Fire-Dragon or Horse-Man. These little rascals were the inspiration for two of the Beasts that Tom faces on his Quest – Arachnid and Claw. He also spends a lot of time at home running around after his two exotic pets – a tarantula named Ziggy, and a capuchin monkey named Omar. His main hobbies are fencing and football. When he’s not writing Beast Quest books, Adam enjoys visiting museums and ancient battle sites. Adam decided to bring Tom fully to life so that readers could go on the kind of adventures that he always wanted to when he was that age… And still does, even though he’s grown up! When Adam grew up and decided that he wanted to be a writer, he was stuck for ideas – until he remembered the old sword and shield, and the imaginary boy he had created when he was young. Eventually, he created a character – Tom, the bravest boy warrior of them all. Adam’s father said they were a Blade family heirloom.Īs a boy, Adam would spend days imagining who could have first owned the sword and shield. He was also fascinated by the ancient sword and shield that hung in his father’s office. His parents were both history teachers and amateur artists, and Adam grew up surrounded by his father’s paintings of historic English battles – which left a lifelong mark on his imagination. ghostwriters who write the Beast Quest and Sea Quest series.Īdam Blade is in his late twenties, and was born in Kent, England. Adam Blade is the house name for the Working Partners Ltd. ![]()
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