is how it was read in the recording), but that may have been fixed in the final layout.

Mind, the printing of the chart in this Find Your Hero Chapter Sampler is actually more confusing for its set up than was Panthaki’s reading (A 22, B 23, C 24, etc. It’s the sort of thing that the eyes can glaze over and gather the gist, but a reader has to take time to say. Lines likeĪloud are just as perplexing, but… lengthier. The codes and charts and solved puzzles were harder to understand in audio form, but that was my one rub with the reading itself. Getting into the car when we had to part ways was not as hard because I knew that Chris, Tom, and the mystery into which they’d been thrust were waiting for me.īy the time that I arrived at my final destination, I was raving to my mother, telling her about the whirlwind adventure I’d just been on, and how the dark back roads of Pennsylvania hadn’t seemed so long or so lonely with this book for company.

When I’d reached my first stop, I was raved to the friend that I visited about the book that I was listening to, telling her to go and buy the thing, even though I was only maybe two or three hours into the story. I spent a good bit of that time (the whole recording is 7 hours and 21 minutes) in Restoration London with an apothecary’s apprentice and his best friend, the baker’s son, Tom. The first leg of my trip was 4 hours to the first stop and another 6 hours to the second stop. Then I went on a road trip, and having recently been reintroduced to audiobooks by a friend who started me on Huck Finn, I decided to go to the local library and see what audiobooks I might be able to bring with me to make the hours pass-and I found this book. Then when I got home I remembered that I had a sample of the book, and read the first two chapters through, and debated more seriously still purchasing the paperback. One that had me reading the paperback of this book-newly out-as I walked it back to its place in the store. Kevin Sands’ The Blackthorn Key, starts with the words “Let’s build a canon.” A promising beginning.

The black thorn key