Ring of Fire by P.D. Baccalario
Four kids. One hotel room. And a briefcase full of mysteries.
Rome. December 29
A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey form New York, Mistral from Paris and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner's daughter, Elettra. Soon the four kids discover an amazing coincidence - they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day. That night, a strange man gives them a briefcase and asks them to take care of it until he returns. Soon afterward, the man is murdered.
The kids open the briefcase. in it they find a series of clues that takes them all over Rome, through dusty libraries and dark catacombs, in search of the elusive Ring of Fire, an anicient object so powerful that legend says even a Roman emperor couldn't control it.
This is the first in a four book series surrounded by mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.
This book is being hyped as DaVinci code for kids. I'd like to say I liked it more than I did, but it didn't quite grab me - it could have had more character development and the mystery seemed scattered at best. I did think the visual clues (in the center of book) useful but I wasn't really sure when to look at them - once I had finished the book?
Curious what the students will think of this one.
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