Amari and the Night Brothers contains all the ingredients I love in a magical middle grade (dangerous tests magical specialties a dastardly villain) but it is thrillingly fresh and original. I haven’t been this excited about a fantasy series since Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor series or Scarlett Thomas’s Worldquake Sequence. She tries to stay focused on finding out what happened to Quinton, but gets swept up in the Bureau’s battle against an evil magician. Amari enters the intensive training program at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, competing with hundreds of other kids for coveted traineeships. But to go further, she has to take an enormous leap of faith, and attend summer camp at a covert supernatural organisation. When Amari receives a mysterious delivery, supposedly from Quinton himself, it seems like she might be getting closer to finding out where he is. But if she doesn’t pass the three tryouts, she may never find out what happened to Quinton.Īmari Peters misses her older brother Quinton, who has been missing for six months. With an evil magician threatening the whole supernatural world, and her own classmates thinking she is an enemy, Amari has never felt more alone. As if she needed something else to make her stand out. Amari is certain the answer to finding out what happened to him lies somewhere inside - if only she can get her head around the idea of mermaids, dwarfs, aliens and magicians all being real things, something she has to instantly confront when she is given a weredragon as a roommate.Īmari must compete against kids who’ve known about the supernatural world their whole lives and are able to easily answer questions like ‘Which two Great Beasts reside in the Atlantic Ocean?’ and ‘How old is Merlin?’ Just getting around the Bureau is a lesson for Amari, with signs like Department of Hidden Places this way, or is it? If all that wasn’t enough, every Bureau trainee has a talent that is enhanced to supernatural levels to help them do their jobs - but Amari’s talent, when it’s revealed, is illegal. He’s left her a nomination for a summer tryout at the secretive Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. There was far more to Quinton, it seems, than she ever knew. Then Amari discovers a ticking briefcase in her brother’s closet. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood City low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. A gripping, fun, heartfelt new fantasy for an upper middle-grade audience. A 12-year-old girl from the housing projects discovers her brother was more than he seemed … And so is she.
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