Outlaws of Time Book 2: The Song of Glory and Ghost
Author: N.D. Wilson
Published April 18, 2017
Page Count: 352
Past, Present, and Future are no longer safe since the Vulture escaped! He is now jumping through time, with disastrous results, until he finds and kills Sam Miracle. Sam, Glory, Peter (a younger version of their mentor, Father Tiempo), and the Lost Boys have been living through various times in hiding. Little do they know their future could lie in the past with a direct confrontation with the very killer they are trying to avoid. After Peter is taken Sam and Glory must travel the sands of time to not only bring him back, but keep him alive by saving his younger self. Get ready to time hope in the next adventure in the Outlaws of Time series.
Reading Audience:
Middle school and above. Parts might be confusing for some on the younger side of middle school reading it. Amazon suggests 8-12 years old, but i would think it would be hard to read for 10 and below. Reading it out loud 8-12 would work.
Stuff to be aware of:
Language - Sayings like “what the heck” and words like idiot are used several times. The words/terms damned, damnation, and “you are damned” is in the story multiple times. These statements are always in a Biblical sense or to express punishment, death, or being condemned.
Scariness - There are large dragon like creatures that try to eat characters. There are demonic like creatures that have female heads, but have wings, black and white eyes, feathers, reptile features, talons, skeletal bodies, and have blood around their mouths. The mental picture I got in my head was harpies, but with demonic flare. There is a pen that writes on people by cutting them.
Violence - Terms like “take her heart” and “eat her heart” are used similar to the first book. There are also discussions about rituals that a human heart is required for. No hearts are taken or eaten. There are a few scenes with blood. One character has a bloody hand and one kid only had four fingers. There is a scene where multiple deaths occur and the deaths are the same character in different parts of their lives. A dead body with a gray face and blood pooled around is seen. An arrow goes through someone’s eye. There is a lone about how it “split from skull to floor.”
Other - The lost boys and other characters steal food and things they need. There is a scene in which a brother abandons her young sister
Overall:
This second book is darker and more gruesome than the first. There is also some spiritual undertones. I would assume that N.D. Wilson is catholic because of some of the words and terminology he uses in this and the 100 Cupboards series. There are a few Biblical Easter Eggs like the Leviathan.
The tone and backdrops are in this book are very different than the first. There is far less of a Western feel. I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first one, but it does wrap up the main story bits. There is a third book out now called the Lost Boys. I think you could only read the second one and be satisfied as far as the story goes though.
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