The story, however, kept me involved, and the characters jumped off the page. The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner Publisher: Orion Childrens Books (2009) ISBN: 978-1-84255-597-2 Nina Aumaitre review. Point of view jumped around, sometimes within the same scene. I also found Silver Blade to be a little disjointed at times. The violence is detailed, and this sequel is darker than the first novel. I believe 15 and up is more appropriate.

As with that novel, maybe a little more so with this one, I believe the intended audience of 12 years old is just a bit too young for the content. The Silver Blade is the sequel to The Red Necklace. When Sido is mysteriously kidnapped, will Yann be able to save her? Slightly obscuring without totally glossing over the brutally repressive period of the early days of the Reign of Terror, the novel follows the adventures of a teenage Gypsy boy and his attempts to rescue the somewhat hapless daughter of a bankrupt nobleman from the clutches of an evil man intent on marrying her. With his beloved Sido safe in London, Yann heads back to France to help smuggle aristocrats, who would be doomed to face the guillotine, out of the country.ĭespite the danger, Sido and Yann write to each other, but her guardian’s disapproval, and a long-kept secret about Yann’s past, could tear them apart.