Parents need to know that Children of the Fox is the first book in a new series by Kevin Sands (The Blackthorn Key series), set in a fantasy world with two moons, a brooding volcano, and a cosmic conflict between followers of the Bear, who are soul-stealing conjurers, and those of the Fox, who are thieves. In a vision, a character sees a friend taken to the guillotine and others meeting violent deaths.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Lots of hand-to-hand and/or magical combat resulting in injury, unconsciousness, and death. A sorcerer wields cold, killing enemies by freezing them to death and shattering them. Lots of scary scenes, such as Callan and his mentor hiding from their pursuers in a basket of snakes, one of which wraps itself around Callan. Another winds up as a burned body floating in the river. A character's eye is gouged out by villains. Protagonist Callan carries horrible scars on his back from the whipping he suffered as a small child when he stole an apple to survive, and the episode is revisited vividly. In one scene a young girl who's been killed is reunited with her stolen soul, and they both vanish. A guild of sorcerers called the Weavers does its work by killing people and animals, imprisoning their souls in objects to enchant them.
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