Kumari - Goddess of Gotham by Amanda Lees (From Worcester News)

Kumari - Goddess of Gotham by Amanda Lees

11:23am Monday 25th February 2008 in News

New York is full of thirteen-year-old girls who think they're goddesses. But Kumari is the real deal. And she doesn't have a clue how she got there.

Kumari is a goddess-in-training who lives in a secret valley kingdom. She is destined to stay young forever, unlike people in the World Beyond. But Kumari longs to break out of her claustrophobic life at the Palace, where her only real friend is a baby vulture, and there's nothing to think about - except the mystery of her mother's death.

It's hard to kill a goddess, but someone did. And so Kumari steals away to the Holy Mountain, determined to summon Mamma back from the dead and to find out the truth.

Bu the next thing Kumari knows, she's in New York. Surrounded by strange buildings and even stranger people, and running for her life...

This book is being reviewed by the children of Tenbury Wells High, Worcestershire.