I was also on the edge of my seat because I am a touch claustrophobic (I had to close my eyes and chant a mantra to make it through a twenty minute tour of the catacombs in Chiusi, Italy this summer) and the vivid descriptions in this book of the underground scenes left me short of breath and feeling like the weight of the earth was pressing on me.
My mistake! For starters, Tunnelsby British authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams does not have dragons, wizards or magic (at least not in the first book in the series.) and it is not fantasy! It is solidly science fiction, a brilliant mix of Jules Verne, Charles Dickens and a little Mark Twain all rolled into one fantastic, innovative, utterly creative plot that is so rich and detailed that I was on the edge of my seat for most of the book. I have become so weary of the constant presence of dragons and magic in books since Harry Potterand Eragon hit the shelves that I often don't even read the jacket flaps of most of the fantasy that is published these days.
It was tagged, as are most non-reality based kid's books published recently, as the next Harry Potter. This was one of those books that I avoided when it first came out in January of 2008 because of the hype that surrounded it.
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