Tunnels (Tunnels Series #1) Book

Do you think It'll be just tunnels, like any ordinary old ones...

Well...Think again and enter, you're welcome..
Welcome into the Tunnels

A mysterious city cities underground..some with people living in..very mysterious inhabitant with their mysterious guardians, mysterious law and rules, mysterious past ...

and other cities, abandoned ancient ones...

....and here we are with 14 years old Will Burrows who is searching into these deep tunnels for his father who disappeared 'mysteriously'...

Will inherit from his father the love , passion for digging tunnels so he's okay with doing so with his friend..but of course what he saw was beyond his imagination..

So far seem nice BUT actually, it's Not...

Despite many saying The beginning was slow, It was what I really enjoyed most , Loved the mystery at this first 1/3 of the novel before Will start digging the tunnel to the city underground.

His father was trying to uncover the truth of the mysterious strange foreigners walking around his city "Highfield"...
Also to find out about the mysterious subject that came to his possession which radiating green light in the dark places...And the mysterious chimneys that serve nothing in the buildings it's in..

I loved it so far,with the introducing the weird family of Will, but after that I really felt "God that's so exhausting"..
The next 300+ pages was a good plot that went bad with the super long and repeated scenes....or scenes that wasn't add much to the plot...300 pages 'total was 470' can be easily just 200 maximum and it'd be superb novel..

And above all, what really really did BUG me is no mystery any of the mysteries been solved by the end of book one...not a single one ....but just more questions appeared...in these 300+ pages

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With few characters , and with intent to keep more mystery to be solved in later books, there was no need at all to make all these pages just describing the long escapes from and into the city

It really board me unexpectedly , I love detailed description of places and characters, as in J.K.Rowling novels...but when it and the plot deserve it...
Remember Harry Potter book one was 320 pages only

The strange thing is this novel, part one, is a reprint to a limited editions 'The Highfield Mole' which published before this one in only 344 pages...
I'm sure it was a much much better one....

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* The Setting *
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The Setting was great, you'll feel it dark green , really the atmosphere of the novel is very well written after all...

Also as I said before, the early part of the novel in Highfield was very nice, I tried to Google if there's an actual city in UK..It was the best in the novel really.

The History of these underground places is still unclear, still mysterious but I'm sure there will be more next 5 books.
Well I bought first four ones, so I guess I'm stuck with Will undergreound...and have to read book 2..which is 'Deeper'..
Hope it's not that prolonged..

Ouh oh, it's 655 pages...

Wish me luck :)

Mohammed Arabey
From 31 Aug. 2014
To 9 Sep. 2014