The Gauntlet - The Gauntlet, Bk 1 Author:Karuna Riazi Nothing can prepare you for The Gauntlet... It doens't look dangerous, exactly. When twelve-year-old Farah first lays eyes on the old-fashioned board game, she thinks it looks... elegant. It is made of wood, etched with exquisite images -- a palace with domes and turrets, latticework windows that cast eerie shadows... more », a large spider -- and at the very center of its cover, in broad letters, is written The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand.
The Gauntlet is more than a game, though. It is the most ancient, the most dangerous kind of magic. It holds worlds inside worlds. And it takes players as prisoners. « less