Plex

The cover promises a chilling read and the opening chapters offer a taste of horrors to come: 'The thing got a wing out - glistening, more like leather than feathers, then fell back. It was drowning inch by inch. Its head jerked backwards, snapping for air, long jaws clacking shut and open ... then it went down.'

Tod and Sly meet Mr Multiplex who has a gift for mixing the 'best of both worlds'. But things start to go wildly wrong when he 'plexes' a dog with a gibbon - and it escapes. The search begins. I found that the promise of a terrifying read never quite materialised, but Plex is a good, undemanding book which will, no doubt, appeal to the horror buffs amongst older children.