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    <body><![CDATA[Piking up JJ Liddy's story as an adult with 4 children, The Last of the High Kings is clever and engaging. Set in a tiny Gaelic village this is a story of a half-fairy family enmeshed in the supernatural, balancing Tir na n'Og, changlings, ancient Puka's, eco-disaster on a global scale, JJ's superna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45737499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson is a delightful Irish story that could be classified as a fairy tale. Perfect for teens of Jr. High School level to adults, all will find this can't put it down entertaining. I enjoyed this so much I finished it in less than 24 hours.<br/><br/>The story ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18664734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[JJ has grown-up and has a family of his own: he's married to Aisling and has four children - Hazel, Jenny, Donal and little Aidan. All his children are special in their own way but Jenny has always lived by her own rules. She forgets to go to school a lot, doesn't like wearing shoes and spends a lot of time on the stone beacon on the mountainside, talking to the ghost who guards it and the puca - the big, white goat who is also something else entirely ... The ghost is Jenny's friend. He loves people and the knowledge that he has kept humanity safe by guarding the beacon for thousands of years, makes him proud, even though he knows that people have forgotten about him. But the puca has a plan: he wants Jenny to persuade the ghost that he doesn't need to guard the beacon any more. Because then the pucas will be able to return the world to what it was before humans upset the harmony of things. It looks as though that is what will happen, but old Mikey Cullan, who is also the last of the High Kings of Ireland, has a plan of his own ... And JJ and Aisling have something that they must tell Jenny, something that will explain a lot of things and give Jenny a choice to make - a choice between the world of humans, the only world she has known, or the world of Tir na n'Og, the Land of Eternal Youth. And it's only after JJ takes Jenny and Donal to Tir na n'Og that she can decide ... <br/>]]>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Thank you, Karin, for sharing your stash]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three and one-half stars. I loved Thompson's &quot;The New Policeman&quot; and wanted to like this sequel more than I did.<br/><br/>J.J., the fifteen-year-old hero of TNP, is grown and married with four interesting children of his own: toddler Aiden, (havoc on two legs); nine-year-old budding musi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16240750">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[JJ has grown-up and has a family of his own: he's married to Aisling and has four children - Hazel, Jenny, Donal and little Aidan. All his children are special in their own way but Jenny has always lived by her own rules. She forgets to go to school a lot, doesn't like wearing shoes and spends a lot of time on the stone beacon on the mountainside, talking to the ghost who guards it and the puca - the big, white goat who is also something else entirely ... The ghost is Jenny's friend. He loves people and the knowledge that he has kept humanity safe by guarding the beacon for thousands of years, makes him proud, even though he knows that people have forgotten about him. But the puca has a plan: he wants Jenny to persuade the ghost that he doesn't need to guard the beacon any more. Because then the pucas will be able to return the world to what it was before humans upset the harmony of things. It looks as though that is what will happen, but old Mikey Cullan, who is also the last of the High Kings of Ireland, has a plan of his own ... And JJ and Aisling have something that they must tell Jenny, something that will explain a lot of things and give Jenny a choice to make - a choice between the world of humans, the only world she has known, or the world of Tir na n'Og, the Land of Eternal Youth. And it's only after JJ takes Jenny and Donal to Tir na n'Og that she can decide ... <br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[And so <em>The Last of the High Kings</em> becomes my last book of 2008!<br/><br/>This is the sequel to <em>The New Policeman</em>. The main character of that book, J.J. Liddy, has grown and has a family of his own, including one special member.<br/><br/>The book brings back more interaction between the human and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37043861">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Traveling to the land of eternal youth was the only way J.J. Liddy could stop time from leaking from his world to T'ir na n'Og. But fifteen years after returning from the land of the faeries, J.J. wonders if that long-ago visit is responsible for the strange things now happening to those around him. </p> <p> Why does his daughter Jenny roam barefoot through the wilds, when she should be in school? When did the mysterious white goat begin to patrol the hillside? What is the secret project that J.J.'s son Donal is attempting? And who is the ghost guarding the stone beacon at the top of the mountain&#8212;and why has Jenny befriended him? </p> <p> Finding answers to these questions will take J.J. and his family on the most important and dangerous journey of their lives. If they fail, it will undo all the good that J.J. accomplished fifteen years ago. But if they succeed, they will defeat the forces that are gathering to destroy all of mankind, and finally secure the future of the last of the high kings. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an incredible achievement...Thompson knows exactly how to turn her phrases so that everything seems so simple, so natural, and yet embedded within each sentence, there is a sense of slight eeriness, slight oddity, ample humor, and power of magic.  I've been trying to figure out why or how or wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33902984">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Traveling to the land of eternal youth was the only way J.J. Liddy could stop time from leaking from his world to T'ir na n'Og. But fifteen years after returning from the land of the faeries, J.J. wonders if that long-ago visit is responsible for the strange things now happening to those around him. </p> <p> Why does his daughter Jenny roam barefoot through the wilds, when she should be in school? When did the mysterious white goat begin to patrol the hillside? What is the secret project that J.J.'s son Donal is attempting? And who is the ghost guarding the stone beacon at the top of the mountain&#8212;and why has Jenny befriended him? </p> <p> Finding answers to these questions will take J.J. and his family on the most important and dangerous journey of their lives. If they fail, it will undo all the good that J.J. accomplished fifteen years ago. But if they succeed, they will defeat the forces that are gathering to destroy all of mankind, and finally secure the future of the last of the high kings. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this sequel to The New Policeman, but for whatever reason it didn't have quite the same magic.  It still had that entertaining blend of Irish mythology and fantasy with real world issues, and the characters were well-drawn, and it had a nice sense of humor in the tone.  I was a little dist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27621430">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Traveling to the land of eternal youth was the only way J.J. Liddy could stop time from leaking from his world to T'ir na n'Og. But fifteen years after returning from the land of the faeries, J.J. wonders if that long-ago visit is responsible for the strange things now happening to those around him. </p> <p> Why does his daughter Jenny roam barefoot through the wilds, when she should be in school? When did the mysterious white goat begin to patrol the hillside? What is the secret project that J.J.'s son Donal is attempting? And who is the ghost guarding the stone beacon at the top of the mountain&#8212;and why has Jenny befriended him? </p> <p> Finding answers to these questions will take J.J. and his family on the most important and dangerous journey of their lives. If they fail, it will undo all the good that J.J. accomplished fifteen years ago. But if they succeed, they will defeat the forces that are gathering to destroy all of mankind, and finally secure the future of the last of the high kings. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kate Thompson was able to change the theory of the last book and develop a new mystery involving a fairy child, puka, and ghost on the beacon. I would recommend this book, because it's full of adventure and suspense.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked Jenny, and the ghost and the púka.  I enjoyed reading about the family of J.J., who had been introduced in a previous book.  I thought the part about changelings a bit odd ... but now, come to think of it, the parents knew they were only fostering her, which was traditional in Ireland.  I e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40947110">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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