The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Adventure: 1 (Samuel Johnson, #1) (Samuel Johnson Adventure) (Samuel Lord, #1)

by John Connolly

A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out ...Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?

• ISBN10: 0340995793
• ISBN13: 9780340995792
• Publish Date: 1 October 2009
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 January 2012
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

How DOES it work that I just recently read a book about the history of the search for the Higgs Boson, only to pick up a John Connolly novel and find out that its plot revolves around the Large Hadron Collider? Having read 11 John Connolly books before this one, that's the last thing I expected from him.

The Gates was a cute diversion from Connolly's darker Charlie Parker novels. I saw another review compare it to Good Omens, and it did remind me a lot of Terry Pratchett in style, right down to the mocking, witty narration. Recommended for anyone looking for something light and airy.