Product Description

After his daring adventures in The Divide and Back To The Divide, Felix is safely back at school in the real world and looking forward to a visit from his best friend, Betony. But when Rhino, the school bully, knocks over Felix's bag in the corridor, all his plans are shattered. In Felix's bag, forgotten until this moment, is the magical lamp he kept last summer. From its spout escapes a furious brandee (genie) who takes Rhino hostage, demanding that Felix and Betony return him home. Together they make the journey across the Divide, but little do they know that inside the lamp, Rhino has discovered a dangerous new toy; an enchanted jinx box that will give him everything his heart desires...Together with their old friends, Felix and Betony must cross frozen northlands, fight terrifying wolf-like snagglefangs and outwit devious japegrins, to stop Rhino and the trickster jinx box that could wreck both their worlds for ever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #530843 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

About the Author
Elizabeth Kay lives in Surrey. As well as being a popular children's writer she is a poet and a teacher of Art and Creative Writing.

Customer Reviews

Beware of boxes with a mind of their own!
Fans of the first two books of Elizabeth Kay's "Divide" trilogy will love the third and final one. Felix has to cross the Divide again because of the stupidity of his classmate Rhino, who gets trapped inside a magic lamp. Felix teams up with Betony again, and with Fuzzy (who was just a chick in "Back to the Divide", but now she's a teenager who goes to squawk clubs and thinks she's really smooth). They encounter even more new creatures, including snagglefangs and troggles. But the Jinx box proves to be the most powerful and dangerous of all - more dangerous even than the dreaded Snakeweed. Everything gets sorted out eventually - with the most amazing and unexpected ending. At the end of the book I was surprised to find there are some puzzles and "outtakes" and other stuff which aren't in the hardback. They're good fun!

And now, the end is near....
'The Jinx on the Divide' completes this fantastic trilogy by Elizabeth Kay. Although I prefer 'Back to the Divide', Kay is true to form with a great plot, characters who have developed wonderfully over the series (Felix is particularly petulant in this book)and with a moral that weaves itself seemlessly into the story.

Despite the great characters in the book, there was one from BTTD that I really missed - Turpsik, the one-eye, fish obssessed poet. I really like her. Perhaps she could have a little spin-off poetry collection published.

Sadly, this is the end and Kay finishes with a very satisfactory ending. It will be interesting to see what she comes up with next.

A Stylish Finale
This engaging and thought-provoking tale is the third and final instalment of the Divide trilogy. Laugh-out-loud funny one line, nail-bitingly tense the next, Elizabeth Kay is as quirky and witty as always. Ironclaw, the obsessively mathematical griffin, has to be one of the most memorable non-human fantasy characters in children's fiction. A smashing tale to delight the whole family, with a spectacularly original ending. Leaves you marvelling at how well you can spend money.