After ten complete edits, I finally finished book five of the Translucent Boy series, The Translucent Boy and the Children of Ice. Here’s the first review of the book, which will be released on Amazon in a couple of weeks. The image shown below is of Solis, the newest member of Odo and Sephie’s Odd Squad.
Reviewed by Heather Stockard for Readers’ Favorite • 5 stars
Teenage superheroes Odo, Sephie, Silas, and Emmy are preparing to graduate from high school and go off to college. In the midst of worrying about scholarships and trying to set up campus tours, they find themselves drawn into yet another adventure. An ancient sampler leads them to Solis, a mysterious alien girl with incredible powers, who was raised in the 18th century. Odo and his friends rescue her and bring her to their own time where they work to find out where she’s from and why she was sent to live on Earth. Their investigation leads them to a distant world held hostage by powerful automatons called Ice Children. Like Solis, they can control heat and cold, but they have used their powers to freeze entire cities, killing thousands and plunging the entire planet into chaos. Odo and the Odd Squad must help Solis discover why the Ice Children are destroying her homeworld and how to stop them before it’s too late.
The Translucent Boy and the Children of Ice is the fifth and final book of Tom Hoffman’s Translucent Boy series. It takes readers on one last fantastical journey with Odo and his delightfully odd band of teenage heroes. In addition to the quirky humor and colorful, imaginative characters and settings found in all of The Translucent Boy books, Hoffman has introduced slightly more mature themes of self-discovery, love, and change. If you have read the other books in this series, you won’t want to miss the exciting and touching conclusion.
TOM HOFFMAN 