{"id":2444,"date":"2013-09-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:20:50","slug":"ravens-of-solemano-by-eden-unger-bowditch-book-review-journey-of-secrets-families-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2444","title":{"rendered":"Ravens of Solemano, by Eden Unger Bowditch (book review) – journey of secrets, families lost?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Belongings vanish, then reappear.
\nMysterious coins<\/a> and curious murals.
\nFabulous food, but no parents to share it with.<\/p>\n

The remote village hides the five Young Inventors and their teacher well, but it also hides many secrets, perhaps even the origins of the Mysterious Men in Black who guard, guide, and confuse them! Hopefully, its ravens<\/a> can hide the children from evil Komar Romak long enough for them to solve a baffling problem which endangers the world.<\/p>\n

Just published on Sept. 24th, The Ravens of Solemano<\/em>\u00a0 surprises with clever puzzles, endearing characters (except for Romak),and links to historical figures famous and obscure. Ask for it today at your favorite local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> – if they don’t have it, use the Book Info below to request it.<\/p>\n

Of course, you’ll enjoy these further adventures of the Young Inventors Guild even more\u00a0 if you’ve already read The Atomic Weight of Secrets<\/em> (my no-spoiler recommendation here<\/a>) , so check it out, too.<\/p>\n

If the expectations of the world are on your shoulders, can you ever put family first?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Ravens of Solemano: The Order of the Mysterious Men in Black (Young Inventors Guild, book 2) \/ Eden Unger Bowditch. Bancroft Press, 2013. \u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: A daring escape, a too-brief family reunion, then the five Young Inventors must solve cryptic puzzles in a puzzling village before their dreadful enemy strikes again – now the world itself is in danger!<\/p>\n

Fortunately, their schoolteacher Miss Brett is with Jasper and little sister Lucy, Wallace, Noah, and Faye as they must travel across the sea from the explosion site where they spent such a short time with their parents, on the run from evil Komar Romak. The Men in Black hustled the children and Miss Brett to safety aboard the strangest ship, crewed by more like them. Such wonders in its library and labs!<\/p>\n

But a murdered man’s message sends danger their way, even before the Young Inventors reach the Italian village of Solemano with its ever-present ravens, mysterious garden labyrinth, and many puzzles to solve. Miss Brett helps the children settle in and resume their experiments – their inventive minds find much to ponder here.<\/p>\n

Underground passageways with possible clues, garden statues that are not what they appear to be, friendly villagers with secrets of their own. How long will the children stay in Solemano? The Men in Black who guard\/protect them cannot (or will not) say.<\/p>\n

Has Komar Romak discovered their hiding place yet?
\nCan the Young Inventors discover enough of Solemano’s secrets to protect themselves?
\nWill they ever see their parents again?<\/p>\n

This second tale in the Young Inventors Guild series takes readers far away, into an imaginatively peopled land of puzzles and parallels as the brilliant children who first met in The Atomic Weight of Secrets<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 must work together to save themselves and the world. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Belongings vanish, then reappear. Mysterious coins and curious murals. Fabulous food, but no parents to share it with. The remote village hides the five Young Inventors and their teacher well, but it also hides many secrets, perhaps even the origins of the Mysterious Men in Black who guard, guide, and confuse them! Hopefully, its ravens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,19,50,51,41],"tags":[90,22,7,75,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,44,43,128,158,71,49,15,57,35,33,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books","category-fiction","category-historical","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-inventors","tag-italy","tag-kidnapping","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8746,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/8746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}