Miskit, a pink rabbity-robot who seems to have jumped right off of a Pokémon trading card, is both wise and brave, having been created to serve and protect Emily and Navin. The robots are definitely the comic relief in the book, although they are also serve as the children's guides to Alledia and ultimately their protectors. Welcomed by a fleet of robots of varying shapes and sizes, all built by Silas, the children are lead to his bedside. They make their way to a house where they find Silas Charnon still alive, although barely. Although they won't know it until the second book, they have entered the kingdom of Alledia, an alternate version of planet earth, where a cruel elf king is ruling a land in the grips of a curse that is slowly turning all of the citizens into animals, albeit human-like animals that walk upright and are sentient.īook one finds Emily trying to save their mother from the stomach of the monster and trying to harness the power the Amulet possesses.

The children follow and the adventure begins. Once there, a swirling apparition leads her to a giant, spidery-squid-like creature that inhales her and runs off. When a noise wakes them and Emily's mother, she grabs a flashlight and heads down to the basement to investigate. In the middle of night the night the amulet begins talking to her, giving her instructions, telling her of the danger her family is in. While cleaning, Emily explores Silas's study and discovers a hidden amulet that Navin helps her tie around her neck. Fast forward a few years and the family is moving to a small town in the country to a house owned by Emily's great-grandfather Silas Charnon. There are intense emotions and internal thoughts in Kibuishi's work that can be conveyed more immediately and precisely with images than words and his style utilizes this magnificently, both in emotional situations and scenes of action. Amuletbegins with a sad prologue that leaves Emily and her brother Navin without a father.

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