Lucas is looking forward to a movie marathon with fellow movie buffs Ash and Finn. Armed with hours worth of snacks, they enter the darkened cinema.

Lucas isn’t happy that his normal seat is occupied, but they settle in a few rows back, ready to be transported into other worlds.

Part of the mystique is not knowing what movies will be shown. What they don’t know is the new 4Di experience will give them so much more than they could have ever imagined.

Their movie marathon begins with a tsunami of black water gushing from the screen and right at them all!

What follows is an action adventure on the ice, a monster flick both above and below the ocean waves, a lost world and a jungle to navigate.

Each of them star in these movies as the hero or side characters. ‘It’s only a movie’ becomes their group mantra as bullets fly, booby traps are sprung, a humongous monster wants to eat them and they are flung far into space.

Only for them to realise it was all for an important reason after all.

We all like to be immersed in a great movie, but would you like to experience the danger, fear and jubilation our movie heroes do?

Five friends are thrown into this very frightening adventure, over and over again, making it just as random for the reader. Action, intrigue and monster movies are all in the mix as Lucas and his friends just try to survive.

They begin to work out what’s happening and work with it, despite the never ending, heart pumping happenings.

Just like Christopher Edge’s Escape Room, the unexpected twist in the conclusion makes everything come into focus for characters and readers, and also brings a realisation of how big a deal the character’s continuing courage really is.

Entertaining read.

Author – Christopher Edge

Age – 10+

(2024, Nosy Crow, Action, Adventure, Courage, Fantasy, Friendship, Mystery, Sci Fi, Ice, Space, Black Holes, Sea Monsters, Monster Flick, Guns, Save the day, Be the hero, Movies, Cinema, Just a movie, Jungle, Hidden City)