The Flight of the Griffin by author C. M. Gray is a wonderful adventure for young teens but I enjoyed it a great deal, and think it is a great tale for readers of all ages.
The Blurb:
The Kingdom is dying…
The Darkness is coming… the balance between Order and Chaos is rapidly shifting and the world is falling towards evil and horror, and all the misery that Chaos will bring.
But there is hope…
Pardigan’s had enough, he’s only 12, but he’s breaking into the home of one of Freya's richest merchants... and he’s doing it tonight…
A burglary that will change their lives forever sets four friends upon a quest, a race against time, to locate three magical objects and complete an ancient and desperate spell.
Sailing their boat The Griffin, the crew are quickly pursued by The Hawk, an evil bounty hunter and master of dark sorcery, and Belial, King of Demons and champion of Chaos who seeks to rule the world of man… yet first he must capture the crew of The Griffin and end their quest…
My Review:
It is the end times for the world, and the tale opens
when Pardigan, the boy- thief, steals a knife and a book from a merchant’s
locked cabinet and sets the events into motion. Quint, the leader of his group
of friends is the strongest and is a fighter. Loras is the boy-magician whose
master died before Loras could learn what he needed to know and who’s magic
never works right. Tarent is a dreamer, a storyteller and he keeps the other boys’
spirits up when times are hard. Orphans
all, they live on the abandoned boat, The Griffin.
Along with the knife and other loot from the merchant’s
house, Pardigan has also gained a strange, magical talking cat named Mahra. This cat who changes back and forth from a
girl, to an owl, to a cat, depending on her mood, knows how to unlock the
secrets of the magical knife and book. They do as they are told to and become the
Magician, Thief, Priest and Fighter, four heroes with a task to right the
balance of the world which must have equal amounts of Order and Chaos. They have been chosen to be the Soldiers for
Order and to oppose Chaos in a quest that pits them against magic, demons and
‘The Hawk,’ an evil hunter of men.
The four boys are real – they are written as boys are,
unfinished and not quite men yet, but the promise of their adulthood is there
in each of them. Mahra is an old soul
(literally hundreds of years old) and is written as such, but she is also young
in many ways.
The travels and adventures the boys and Mahra have are
well written and completely engrossing. The scenery
and the backgrounds against which the tale takes place are rich and yet not
overdone. It is the first book of a
fantasy series, but it is a stand-alone book, and I would recommend this book
to anyone who simply loves a good adventure.
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Update Mar 17, 2017: Our friends at http://www.creativia.org/ tell us that Flight of the Griffin can now be found at
http://www.arcticwolffantasy.com/chaos-order-ancient-spells-flight-griffin.html.
It has a new cover and we wish author C.M. Gray and Flight of the Griffin well at their new home!
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