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Darkmouth by Shane Hegarty (view source)
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It's not much fun having a Destiny, and a line of ancestors leading back into the mists of history to live up to. It's a lot less fun when you're a bit of a loser, and the Darkmouth villagers you're supposed to protect are so fed up with your mistakes they phone the local bobby to complain every time you go out hunting. Just because you squashed someone's car a teeny bit, and sliced a boat in two – I mean, you've got to learn, right?
As long as people can remember Legends (that is to say, slimy, vicious, murderous monsters) have been crossing over to this dimension. You can't really blame them: their own world is stinky and dark and barren, and there are no juicy humans to eat there. But over time most of the monsters come to realise that the Hunters are just too good, and if they want to survive they'd better stay where they are and just eat each other. With the disappearance of the Legends , the Hunter traditions fade, until eventually there is only one place left in the world where a rippling gateway occasionally opens from the Infested Side. A small village in Ireland called Darkmouth.
Here, Finn is subjected by his father to a rigorous daily routine of exercises and tests which are as tedious as they are painful, and they leave Finn no time whatsoever for hobbies or relaxation or friends. Not that anyone wants to be his friend anyway: they'd much rather beat him up. And then a new girl joins his class, someone who thinks he's really cool and brave, and life gets altogether better – until his dad breaks the news that he's getting a promotion that will take him away from Darkmouth for weeks on end, so defending the village will be totally up to Finn.
Another really good series for confident readers about those pesky monsters who refuse to stay under the bed is [[The Luck Uglies by Paul Durham]]: fun, mystery, secrets and danger abound.
[[Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth Books in Chronological Order]]
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