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Book One of the Companions Quartet. Eco-fantasy. A sometimes overtly environmental propaganda mixed with all sorts of mythic creatures and their human companions.Connie, aged 11, is a petite, black-haired girl who is essentially a loner and an outcast. Because of her uncanny connection to animals and her ability to communicate with them, Connie has become isolated from everyone around her, including her parents and younger brother. In fact, her parents seem to regard her as more of an inconvenient problem to be dealt with than their daughter who needs their love and support. Instead, due to the trouble that Connies animal problem has caused her at schools, her parents just ship her to England to stay with her cold and distant aunt Evelyn. Once arrived in Hescombe, Connie realizes that she is not going to fit in much better here, since her aunt seems perfectly content to totally ignore her. However, Evelyn does introduce Connie to her friends grandson, Col Clamworthy. He is the same age as Connie, but quite nearly everything she is not. He is self-assured and confident, the coolest kid in town and at school. Obviously loved by his grandmother. One interesting note is that Connie and Col both have mismatched eyes - one green and one brown. Big clue there. However, the two do not exactly hit it off. In fact, when school starts, Col pretty much ignores Connie, which only serves to reinforce her opinion of How could I ever expect someone as cool as Col to want to be friends with a loser like me? Still, she does make some friends at school, Anneena and Jane. They take her ability with the pet hamster as nothing more than being good with animals. So far, good.Not. There is an oil refinery being built and workers are disappearing. This is where is becomes evident that something more is going on and that something happens to be the Society for the Protection of Mythic Creatures, a group that is comprised of an array of mythical creatures and their companions, humans, who can speak with them and are connected to them. Evelyn is a companion to banshees, Col to pegasi, his grandmum Mrs. Clamworthy to water sprites. Dragons and weather giants also debut here, as well as dwarf, unicorn, a storm bird, a selkie and, of course, sirens. No one but companions are supposed to know about the group, so no one lets Connie in on the secret and she feels left out as it seems that her aunt could care less about her, refusing to discuss the society meetings she attends, and Col wont answer her questions. He appears to be trying to ditch her.It is quite slow-moving at this juncture while Connie tries to discover what this mysterious society really is to which Evelyn, Col and the others belong. Meanwhile, the Society is desperately trying to prevent the sirens from killing the oil refinery workers. And from revealing to the world the sirens precsence, a world obviously unprepared to learn of their existence, much less coexist with them amicably.Soon, through Dr. Brock and Col, it becomes apparent that Connie might be a companion to sirens and thus might be able to convince them to cease and desist their attacks. Only, when she has her assessment test, the oily and nasty Mr. Coddrington fails her and informs them that she has no settled gift. The truth that comes to light is that Connie does indeed have a gift, a very rare and dangerous gift. She is the only known living Universal, an individual who is companion to all species, mythic or otherwise, able to speak to them and understand them. As such, she is envied, feared, and hated by her felllow companions and eagerly sought after by the ancient creature Kullervo, a being of untold evil. And who also happens to be Connies counterpart in the mythical world.In this manner, the running conflict of the series, between Connie and Kullervo for the world, is set in motion. At first, Kullervo seeks to have Connie assist him willingly in his manic quest to exterminate humanity. Connies confrontation with him is fleeting and though she defeats him as she is rescued by Col and companions, a clear picture of Connies nemesis is drawn and we are given the clear impression that he will be back and he will not relent in his pursuit of the Universal, of his Universal. He sees her not only as his companion, but his possession.Throughout the book, Connie and Col become friends, Connie realizes that Evelyn does care about her. She has made good friends at school in Jane and Anneena. She is no longer a social outcast, but she is once again isolated within the society by her status as the lone Universal. This sense of aloneness in her gift will only increase with time, as will the jealousy and envy of others within the society, as well as a general fear of Connie, both of what she is and what Kullervo can do through her. It is clearly a book setting up a story, laying the groundwork for what is to come. I liked the characters and the premise. Mostly normal dialogue. If anything, it is the environmental issues that keep this solidly at three stars. Throughout the series, it only becomes more and more apparent that the fantasy/mythic aspect the books is simply masking Goldings blatant Save the earth because we humans are destroying it propoganda. If the message were more subtle, it would not bother me so, but ten year old kids rarely differentiate and ask for both sides of the issue. Furthermore, I am all for careful and responsible care of the earth, as we are all stewards of creation, but I do not buy into the global warming farce, which becomes a central issue in book three, and I imagine four. The first two focus on destruction of habitat, which was not really objectionable, but leave global warming out of it. Is there anyone left as a voice of reason and balance? We have Golding, Gore, Patterson, Carmon, all of them spouting their own opinions and couching them as truth. I really hate it when a story tries to mask itself as a story when it is really more propaganda for a political ideology than a story. What is the story here stands on its own, mythical creatures, evil nemesis, quest. More than enough. But what could have been far better is bogged down by the authors preoccupation with global warming. So, I recommend it for the story if you can overlook the propaganda so maladroitly inserted.
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