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Book Info:


Title: Terra Electrica: The Guardians of the North

Author: The Guardians of the North

Genre: Dystopian, Science & Nature, Environment

Age Category: Middle Grade

Page Count: 272 Pages 

Publication Date: July 4, 2024

Publisher: Neem Tree Press

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204929195-terra-electrica

Amazon: https://a.co/d/0ekqkIpP (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/0dUDASJ3 (UK) https://a.co/d/0euPP4sr (Canada)

Book 1 is an action-packed dystopian adventure series set in the near-future post-melt Arctic.


The last ice cap has melted, and the world is on the brink of collapse. A deadly force—Terra Electrica—has been unleashed. It feeds on electricity. It is infecting civilization.


In this chaotic, rapidly changing reality, 12-year-old Mani has lost her family and community to the Terra Electrica. Armed only with some ancestral wisdom and a powerful, ancient wooden mask she was never meant to inherit so soon, she suddenly finds herself responsible for the fate of the world.


Can Mani piece everything together and harness her newfound powers in time to save humanity?

About the Author:


Antonia Maxwell is a writer and editor based in North Essex and Cambridge, UK. With a  degree in Modern Languages and a long-standing career as a book editor, she has a lifelong curiosity for language and words, and a growing fascination in the power of story – the way it shapes our lives and frames our experience.

My Review I love the map at the beginning, I really appreciate little touches like this, illustrations and maps really grab me, and help me visualise the book, the locations, the characters. My initial interest came from the cover, the wolf, polar bear, woods and electric bolts. The blurb did make me feel a little less excited as it’s got real world natural disasters in, which I don’t like. But putting first impressions aside, I went in…. Marni is courageous, thoughtful, proactive and loyal. But now she’s on her own, she has to break her word to her father, it’s that or starve to death. I was puzzled that they lived in a cave, while others clearly lived with mod cons like electric and technology, why did they end up in a cave? I liked watching her solve situations with a sensitive but fierce attitude. Thoroughly enjoyable read. Thought provoking and it’s good to think how would you act, would you be different, or choose the same as Marni.