Dancing Jax

Hardback Published on: 03/02/2011
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Dancing Jax
By Sophie, age 13
Great book, I loved it. Scary in a way but an absolute page turner. Quite a slow start but otherwise very good.
Petersfield Junior Review Club
Dancing Jax
Compelling, weird and totally unique
The story starts off in a school, in a dull coastal town, with the usually cast of the good, the bad and the misfits. From then on it is like nothing you h... READ MORE
Jeanette Cake at Southampton

Synopsis

A brilliant supernatural thriller with a modern twist, and a triumphant return from one of Britain's best-loved writers. At the end of a track, on the outskirts of an ordinary coastal town, lies a dilapidated house. Once, a group of amateur ghost hunters spent the night there. Two of them don't like to speak about the experience. The third can't speak about it. He went into the basement, you see, and afterwards he screamed so hard and so long he tore his vocal cords. Now, a group of teenagers have decided to hang out in the old haunted house. Dismissing the fears of the others, their leader Jezza goes down into the basement! and comes back up with a children's book, full of strange and colourful tales of a playing-card world, a fairytale world, full of Jacks, Queens and Kings, unicorns and wolves. But the book is no fairytale. Written by Austerly Fellows, a mysterious turn-of-the-century occultist, it just might be the gateway to something terrifying!and awfully final. As the children and teenagers of the town are swept up by its terrible power, swept into its seductive world, something has begun that could usher in hell on earth.
Soon, the only people standing in its way are a young boy with a sci-fi obsession, and his dad -- an unassuming maths teacher called Martin!

Publisher information

  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780007342372
  • Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 46 mm
  • Weight: 677g

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Dancing Jax
It's different from any other book
I was asked to review this book for Waterstones. I have read previous Robin Jarvis books and so therefore was looking forward to reviewing the latest book.... READ MORE
rueyclem
Dancing Jax
As creepy as Stephen King, but for Young Adults
If Stephen King were to write a book for young adults then I would imagine it would be something very much like Dancing Jax. Although Robin Jarvis suggests... READ MORE
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