Tourney of Terror

Tourney of Terror

Madeleine Roux, 1985-

Book - 2022

Something big has come knocking on the gates of Dungeon Academy! The undefeated Waterdeep Dragons have arrived for the Tourney of Terror games, which occur every half century. The Academy Flumphs are outnumbered, outsized, and outmonstered! But our hero, Zelli Stormclash, a forbidden human, secretly disguised as a minotaur, is no stranger to impossible odds, and neither are her friends, the Danger Club, who recently battled a necromancer and his army of undead! If the Waterdeep Dragons weren't enough to raise scales, Zelli's reoccurring nightmare of a dark entity annihilating her world may be more than just a bad dream. Something sinister lurks in the halls of the school, and only Zelli seems to notice. But when Zelli uncovers a d...ark past hidden beneath Dungeon Academy, she unlocks something that will concern everyone at school, every dragon at Waterdeep, and everything within the Forgotten Realms.

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Subjects
Dungeons and Dragons (Game) > Juvenile fiction.
Magic > Juvenile fiction.
Monsters > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Contests > Juvenile fiction.
Contests.
Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
Magic.
Monsters.
Schools.
Fantasy fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Genres
Fantasy fiction
Action and adventure fiction
Fiction
Juvenile works
Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Madeleine Roux, 1985- (author)
Other Authors
Tim Probert (illustrator)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
220 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9780063039148
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

The Danger Club faces a dangerous plot during a sports tournament in this sequel. After the events of No Humans Allowed! (2021), Zelli's dreams are plagued by cryptic nightmares sent by the defeated necromancer, Lord Carrion, held captive in the Dungeon Academy detention room. While the adults, including secretly human Zelli's adoptive minotaur mothers, tell her to leave it to the grown-ups, she's not convinced they're doing enough. She enlists the Danger Club to help research Lord Carrion's clues. But then the school's thrown into chaos, hosting the Waterdeep Dragons for the Tourney of Terror, a monstrous sporting event. Aside from the sports rivalry, there's interspecies tension between the dragons and the monsters. Investigating portals while everyone's distracted, black-haired Zelli discovers a dragon who's actually a human boy. From their shared secret knowledge of each other's identities, Zelli forms a bond with blond Tavian (in a storyline handled with all the subtlety of a brick to the face), and soon he's ignoring the dragons' snobbery to join the Danger Club's investigation. Though the themes are heavy-handed at times, the action delivers on epic battles (especially against skeletal foes), and the storyline gives the characters real stakes and costs along with solid twists, all fitting seamlessly into the humorous Dungeons & Dragons setting. Final art not seen. Readers will want to level up quickly to tackle the cliffhanger ending. (Fantasy. 8-12) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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