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Reader reviewed by Erica

Sophie's parents are killed in an explosion and she now lives with her Great-Aunt Tabitha. She's 15 now. A seance is held, and shortly later the medium is found dead, but not before she delivers a terrifying prophecy to Sophie. Sophie fills in her best friend Mikael, and together they're determined to find out why. They also want to get to the bottom of the prophecy, what could it mean?
The Explosionist is set in Scotland in a time of terroism, politics, and ever-changing alliances. Sophie is unsure of who to trust, and where she can go to get the answers she very much needs.

The Explosionist has a great story line. At every corner it has you thinking, and you never can quite get it right. You think one thing is going to happen, then something else happens. The suspense keeps you going. This is another one of those you can't stop reading it, you do not want to put it down. I read straight through this one, staying up well into the night when I had to get up for school in just a few short hours. Jenny Davidson did an outstanding job with this novel. This is her first teen novel, and did a fanomonal job with it. The story roughly follows the story of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.