Malice by Chris Wooding
4 stars

Seth is a teen with best friends Kady and Luke,one day Luke says he got hold of the rare comic featuring the city of make believe city of Malice. When Luke disappears the next day, Seth gets worried.

So he does the chant and ritual said to get him into the world in the horrifying comic that involves kids getting in bad situations getting chased by horrible creatures. But then when he wakes up he isn’t in his bed he is in a different world on a train. And he finds out that Malice is real and the creatures are out there to kill him and some to suck time out of him.

He finds out that all the missing kids are here and if you die in the Malice you die in real life. This world is controlled by the evil Tall Jack who is selling these mysterious comics and controlling this world.He also meets up with some other kids including one who saved his life from a chitter monkey a monkey that sucks time out of you. Seth saw a victim die when it bit her. And in her pocket was two white tickets that on the train can take you anywhere or take you home. And the black tickets can take you anywhere but not home.

Now everyone thinks he is missing to. And Kady is worried to0 because he is gone. But one night while she is talking to her cousin she finds out that she never went to visit her and that her mom is a professional hypnotist and what really happened is that she disappeared for four months and came home one day dazed and couldn’t remember where she was because when you come out of Malice you cant remember anything.And she does the chant and ritual to get back to Malice and save Seth. She uses the ticket and finds him. And they find a wise woman and they ask her about how to defeat Tall Jack.

If you want to find out what happens to Kady and Seth and if they will ever get out and defeat him or stay there forever. I gave this book 4 out of 5 stars because it is part comic part book and all action I would recommend it for people who like action and don’t mind some scary things.