Changes

Scary? Yes, and life just keeps on getting difficult for Finn. It's ten months since he returned through Darkmouth's Cave, and his best friend Emmie has had to move back to the city, so he's pretty lonely. His dad has increased the hours of battle training, determined that Finn won't let him down at the Completion Ceremony, so he spends every moment he's not at school picking up new bruises in the training room. And, though Finn doesn't realise it yet, there's one creature , in particular , hanging around who definitely intends to do Finn harm. Lots and lots and lots of slow, agonising harm. But despite all that the story's in no way gloomy: every shiver and gasp of horror or disgust is more than balanced by humour. For example, check out what happens when Finn sneezes in class in chapter one, accidentally unleashing his new-found power. Then there's are all the people who could have become Legend Hunters if only a monster or two had had the good manners to choose their town as a portal for a change: the teeniest sniff of a battle has them near-hysterical with excitement. And, possibly best of all, there's Broonie the Hogboon, a fairly harmless little Legend (well, unless you happen to be an earthworm, aka lunch) who got stuck on the wrong side of the portal. He's one of those characters who expect absolutely everything to go wrong in the worst and most painful way possible – and he's almost always right.