Why read The Gauntlet?

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A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that's a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair.

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Why read it?

2 authors picked The Gauntlet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Mary K. Savarese

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I love the Jumanji series and how it has been brought to the big screen. How imaginative is it to incorporate time travel through a board game! The mysteries revealed, the friendships that build romance, the treachery.

The twist here is that the author does this with a Middle Eastern flair and builds a whole different imaginary world…

From Mary's list on fantasy adventure novels intertwined with romance.

Payal Doshi

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Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a Jumanji-inspired mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand and it’s up to them to defeat the villainous architect of the game and save themselves and all those trapped inside. This fantasy story set in a Middle Eastern and Bangladeshi-inspired world is nail-biting to say the least and Karuna Riazi’s lush prose with descriptions of taste and smell transported me straight into the story and deadly game (and also left me very hungry!). Besides, when there are red scorpions, grease monkeys, and sand cats who wouldn’t want to…

From Payal's list on children’s fantasy with South Asian representation.