Ellik the Lightning Horror

Beast Quest #41

by Adam Blade

Malvel ist zurück! Er hat dem guten Zauberer Oradu seine Kräfte geraubt und schreckliche Biester ins Königreich Tavania gebracht. Wird es Tom gelingen, die sechs magischen Gegenstände des guten Zauberers zu finden, um ihn zu befreien?
Tödliche Blitze zucken über den Nebeldschungel. Denn Nergato, ein furchtbares Biest, treibt dort sein Unwesen. Es besitzt die seltene Fähigkeit, seine Gegner mit elektrischer Energie zu befeuern. Tom und Elenna müssen den Nebelteufel in seine Heimat zurückschicken, sonst ist Tavania verloren!
Actionreiche Fantasy, spannende Missionen und gefährliche Biester! Die erfolgreiche Kinderbuchreihe mit zahlreichen Illustrationen ist besonders für Jungs ab 8 Jahren geeignet.

Genres: Fantasy, Childrens

119 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Adam Blade is the house name for the Working Partners Ltd. ghostwriters who write the Beast Quest and Sea Quest series.

Adam Blade is in his late twenties, and was born in Kent, England. His parents were both history teachers and amateur artists, and Adam grew up surrounded by his father’s paintings of historic English battles – which left a lifelong mark on his imagination. He was also fascinated by the ancient sword and shield that hung in his father’s office. Adam’s father said they were a Blade family heirloom.

As a boy, Adam would spend days imagining who could have first owned the sword and shield. Eventually, he created a character – Tom, the bravest boy warrior of them all. The idea for Beast Quest was born.

When Adam grew up and decided that he wanted to be a writer, he was stuck for ideas – until he remembered the old sword and shield, and the imaginary boy he had created when he was young. Adam decided to bring Tom fully to life so that readers could go on the kind of adventures that he always wanted to when he was that age… And still does, even though he’s grown up!

When he’s not writing Beast Quest books, Adam enjoys visiting museums and ancient battle sites. His main hobbies are fencing and football. He also spends a lot of time at home running around after his two exotic pets – a tarantula named Ziggy, and a capuchin monkey named Omar. These little rascals were the inspiration for two of the Beasts that Tom faces on his Quest – Arachnid and Claw.

Sadly, Adam does not have his own Fire-Dragon or Horse-Man. But he really wishes he did!

Reviews

[Maximilian Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book because it think the story was very good. I didn't like the part when Tom almost failed and was stuck in mud. But I did like the part when he defeated Ellik by trapping him under a bunch of rocks.

[Zeerin Star · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Tom and Elenna's weapons- the sword, shield, and spear they'd stolen earlier- were taken away by Peter, one of the junior guards." What spear? Does the ghostwriter mean the spear that was destroyed in the fight against the previous book's Beast? And why and how are their weapons getting taken AGAIN, when they'd already been said to have been taken? And what about Elenna's bow that she mysteriously got back in the second book of the set, after it had been taken away in the first book of the set? Did that disappear as mysteriously as it appeared? Also, orang-utans. Let alone the ghostwriters, how in the fuck did the editor not see that? Was there not an editor? It would certainly help explain the lack of proper continuity the series has had ever since Gwildor. Tom, or rather the ghostwriters, still don't remember that Tom has a healing talisman or his bag of tokens from Gwildor. At one point Tom has to look for his sword that he didn't drop. Normally I wouldn't call that an inconsistency because of what had been happening at the time, but the ghostwriters made a point of saying he was still gripping his sword only a few paragraphs before. And Tom calls both Madara, the Beast from the previous book, and Ellik by their book titles (Midnight Warrior and Lightning Horror, respectively), but how does he know what they're called in the book titles? His magic map either doesn't give the names at all or only gives the actual name (Hellion, Madara, Ellik, etc.). The map doesn't give their title, and the Good Wizard never told him them, so how does he know? If that's been a thing in some of the earlier books, not only do I not remember it, but those were also all different maps from the current one. A point of continuity, Tom's sword hand gets injured and he uses his other hand to fight. And he actually remembers having done so in Gwildor and *why* he did so in Gwildor. Good for you ghostwriters, actually remembering events from a previous set properly.
4 stars for because I'm being generous about them remembering Tom fighting left-handed in Gwildor and because I like Ellik. Big snakes are fun and adorable, and lightning powers that charge by being struck by lightning makes for an interesting, if very situationally powerful, Beast.

[Samson Eniola · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is 👍👍

I give it 5 out of five
Because this book is great and adventurous
I would toats recommend this book to all of you who are into adventure and beast quest

[Harith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just love it !

[Tiffiny · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 10 yr old son: I loved the plot and I loved how it was in the jungle. I loved how Ellik is a giant eel. (he read it in about 12 hours)

[Nathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adventurous, exiting and a pleasure to read.