The Kingdom Keepers-The Forgotten Harry Potter

The Kingdom Keepers-The Forgotten Harry Potter

Overall Rating: Wow I didn’t expect it to be this good

Looking for a new fantasy book to read? Have you worn out and memorized the lines out of the Harry Potter books? Or are you looking for something that is both kid friendly and can be enjoyed by adults. Well in the bargain bin at a local Hasting I found this forgotten treasure that nobody seems to know anything about. It’s called The Kingdom Keepers

Also known as Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark, this book is written by Ridly Pearson. And if the word Disney scarred you? Don’t let it. Despite how silly the book sounds, it is really a great imaginative novel that isn’t too silly for adults and just fun enough for kids.

So here’s the concept of the book. The book focuses on a thirteen year old boy name Finn Whitmen. He has won a contest along with four other kids to have their selves replicated into electronic hologram hosts to help serve people in the Disney theme park. Basically there’s a hologram of each kid is created to help tourist and answer questions in Disney land. But once the holograms of each kid is made (the book calls them DHI) something happens to them.

When Finn and the other kids go to bed for the night , they wake up in Disney Land after dark in the form of holograms. And at night time Disney Land comes alive. And right here I will tell you that it is not as happy go lucky as you would think it would be. It is actually kind of a dark kids tale.

The witch from Sleeping Beauty is trying to take over the world beyond Disney Land. She already nearly has complete control over the park. And the five kids must go on a quest to solve a riddle in order to find the one thing that can hurt any Disney character. Along the way they encounter psychotic animatronics dolls, dinosaur skeletons that came alive and the Pirates of the Caribbean as well. It has this kind feel the old West World movie very much applied to story. But it’s entertaining oddly enough telling a epic fantasy in a story set in a world that kids can completely relate to.

Just one real complaint wit the book. Where the hell was this book when I was in elementary school? I love this book, and I would of loved it back then too. We had to read ninety minutes every day and all I had was the box car children and baby sitters club. And if they could of included more Disney villains. I think it would have been more entertaining. But it’s still a masterpiece.

An this is not a new book either. It was book that no one even knows about. It was written back in 1999. And if your like me and t sounds fun. You’ll like it. If your kid is into reading, then get it. My rating ting is four stars. It’s the Harry Potter no one knew about.

I just wonder one thing though. Was this book any of inspiration for that Disney Game Kingdom Hearts? But now I’m just think out loud.

Four Smoothies out of Four

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