Author:Ali Sparkes
The year is 2009, and Ben and Rachel are trying to figure out a way to spend their summer holidays when it is constantly raining. When suddenly, the waterworks are switched off. In celebration, they rush out into their jungle of a garden to play, when they discover a strange, gleaming object in the ground that refused to budge from its place. Dedicatedly, they dig around the object and discover a large vault buried under the ground. And inside the vault there are two....
The year is 1956. Freddy and Polly, the children of a famous British scientist, love helping their father. He has carried out research in cryonic suspension, meaning that he can freeze the hearts of animals and restart them whenever he likes. He froze his children almost on a daily basis. The children did not mind, they knew that they were helping their father with his research. But one day their father leaves them frozen for a little too long....
When Ben and Rachel discover Freddy and Polly frozen in the vault after fifty-three years, their life is completely turned upside down. They have to accommodate two children from 1956 in the 21st century,face bullies, participate in an ultimate showdown between two governments, rediscover a lost relative, and rescue each other. But can they pull through all of this alive and safe? Can they find out why Freddy and Polly's father left them frozen in time?
This a wonderful piece of work that is extremely gripping. The idea is too innovative to be true. However, I felt that I had reached the ending too quickly. It was filled with too many irrelevant things. The main focus was varying throughout the book. The ending was simply amazing. It is incomprehensible to think that someone could write such a mystifying ending.
All in all, I feel that it is a good book to read, but not entirely a good book to cherish.
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