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Information about the book
Join teenager Joe on a rollercoaster adventure travelling back in time to the heyday of Victorian Crystal Palace.
Joe's world is turned upside down when he discovers a shattered compass among the brambles where the Crystal Palace once stood and travels through time back to 1888.
With help from the creator of Sherlock Holmes, daredevil Blondin and the Queen of the Gypsies, Joe must foil dangerous diamond thieves to uncover dark secrets about the 'People's Palace'. Standing on the boundaries between worlds, it's secrets are tied to the fate of Joe's family.
As a North Londoner who has briefly lived in South London, I've never been to Crystal Palace. However as a person who has always loved reading about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and The Great Exhibition, The Crystal Palace Chronicles: Star of Nimrod did catch my interest.
Fantasy has never really been a big interest of mine when I was younger but this year I'm making an effort to change that. I loved everything about this book, from the characters to the plot twist to the descriptive details. When you finish reading the Star of Nimrod, there's a section called "Real Life Characters From Victorian Crystal Palace". For example there's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the early years of him writing the Sherlock Holmes stories. I enjoyed the reading about the real life characters, it was interesting to learn about who they were and what they did in the Victorian era.
At the very end of the book, you get a little snippet of the next book called The Crystal Palace Chronicles: Palace of Shadows and I cannot wait to read about the next adventure Joe goes on!