Your teenagers will willingly put down the remote to whatever game they have and pick this up instead. It's a wonderful read for those of you with kids, I promise they will jump right in bed if promised a chapter of The Keeper and The Rune Stone each night. This is a book that you can read over and over and notice something new each time. Several things come to mind when thinking about this book. It doesn’t get scarier than the prologue, though, so if you’ve gotten through that with no trouble, the rest is smooth sailing. This is the kind of light, middle-grade fiction that will be torn through by hands eager to find out what happens next in the world of Eleanor and her brothers and sister.Ī note for parents: most of the novel is safely PG, but there are vampires (in this book they’re called noctivagi), and the bad-guy scenes are decently scary. There are negative elements within the world of magic, and now the Driscoll children are exposed to them – and must fight on the side of the good. Their indoctrination comes with the enhancement of the senses, though not actual superpowers – except for the reasonably fabulous ability to speak with animals.īut, of course, magic always comes with a price. More to the point, the children are quickly introduced to the world of magic. She begins her story with a reasonably awesome wish-fulfillment laundry list: the Driscoll family has moved into an enormous, beautiful mansion! And they get new computers! And bikes! And horses! Of course, they will have to do chores in order to maintain these last, because this is a family story.
The Keeper and the Rune Stone is a charming, family-centric novel that takes the sweet earnestness of The Boxcar Children and maps high fantasy elements onto it.Įleanor Driscoll, our narrator, is a precocious, empathetic thirteen-year-old with two brothers and a younger sister.
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