Unraveller: The must-read fantasy from Costa-Award winning author Frances Hardinge

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Continue your way up. You'll need to jump on a large pipe to get to the scaffolding. Kill a guy then moved to the closed door. A small propane tank exploding should open the door for you, allowing you to go to the next elevator. Move forward and at a dead-end, jump on the box to get over the closed wall to move on and onto the next elevator. Then you've got a rail to grind followed by two circular elevators in a row, the latter of which will take you to your next puzzle. There will be blood in Jo Simmons’s The Reluctant Vampire Queen: ‘think Geek Girl with a supernatural twist’. Illustration: Anatolii Frolov/Getty Images Once you're done with the lair, get in the circular elevator and then in the next one right after it. You'll land on three large pipes immediately grinding down. As you grind, there will be occasional pipes above you, piping either steam or water down on you. To avoid that, you'll need to switch rails each time by holding either L eft or Right + to hop over. ( Note: Pay attention to the rails as the left and right rails will end at a certain point and then return.) At the end of the rails, you'll need to jump to a swinging pole before you fall down. Use AV to see them clearly. Then just continue on as normal. A dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Frances Hardinge

Perhaps you will decide that all the stories of the Wilds and the Raddith cursers were invented to entertain tourists. And at night, when you see a many-legged shape scuttle across the ceiling of your bedchamber, you will tell yourself that it is a spider, and only a spider . . . Our main protagonist, Kellen, has a talent for unravelling curses. One day he meets Nettle and unravels her curse and they become close friends. But then Kellen discovers he’s become cursed. As Kellen and Nettle investigate his curse, they go on a journey where they discover secrets and lies and the truth about their friendship. Beautifully written, this world of sinister magical creatures, spiteful curses and all-too-human cursers is vividly evoked. Hardinge explores emotions such as envy and spite with great sensitivity, showing how people’s lives can be twisted out of recognition if they allow these feelings to take over – and how they can affect others. While you're platforming, doing acrobatics, you don't need to worry about timing; while you're swinging on a pole, you don't need to time your jump as she swings. You can press jump at any time and she'll jump to the next pole/platform/etc without an issue as long as she is facing it. For fans of Leigh Bardugo and Neil Gaiman comes Frances Hardinge’s spectacular novel Unraveller. Called her ‘best yet’ by the Guardian, Hardinge expertly weaves together mythology and mystery in a richly-detailed world besieged by curses.

Discovering the flaws in one’s society (large or small, country or village) is a huge and important part of growing up, and one that Hardinge explores and pokes at with questions and ideas. If anyone can do something wrong, or feel something wrong, and wind up an outcast, then what? What grace can the world learn to offer to the rejected and outcast and othered? What can be learned from anger, and what are its limitations? How do you know when anger is righteous and useful, and when it’s merely cruel? Can power that comes from anger and pain be used for good? PUZZLE #11 (GAS MAIN) [ Video Walkthrough: 22:25]:Turn on AV and use the machine gun to blow up the gas main. (As usual, use it to mow down the enemies that spawn in the tunnel before you let go of the turret). Hardinge is a brain in a billion. In every book she builds a fantastical world with never before imagined realities, and shows us what it means to be human.

A new Francis Hardinge novel, and so to a new world. Unraveller offers a rich, detailed world of darkness, light, and a very particular kind of spidery magic. For those for whom the promise of new, strange lands is central to the appeal of Hardinge’s work, this latest novel will grip, thrill and delight. It is rich in the extraordinary and the uncannily familiar and provides plenty of spectacle, intrigue, and menace in its imagined spaces.But I will be thinking about this story for a long time. It had so many unique and endearing characters, the setting of the Wilds was exceptionally magical and I loved Nettle and Kellen’s growth throughout the novel. Unraveller features Kellen, an unraveller of curses and Nettle, a former cursed one whom Kellen has unravelled along with her siblings. The two pair together and travel unravelling people's curses, but find themselves imprisoned in the first few chapters. They're offered a release through the form of a contract with a one-eyed Horseman (Gall) who is the messenger for someone higher up but that's not revealed until later and there are no spoilers here! Kellen, Nettle and Gall and his horse visit the Red Hospital where cursers are kept and discover an escapee and the rest of the book follows their journey to find the fugitive so they can unravel a curse. On the way, they travel through Mizzleport, the Highlands, Shallow Wilds, Deep Wilds and more meeting a variety of characters: the cursed, cursers and everyone in between whilst unravelling a deeper conspiracy involving the government of Chancery itself. Another creative well-written young adult fantasy from the master of the atmosphere and whimsy. Even though this felt so unlike all the other books I’ve read penned by her. If you’ve been following Hardinge’s career so far, you know she’s into whimsical, often surreal stories written in ornate language. This was different. This was .. overstuffed, crowded.