The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith by Loris Owen

The concept is rather big and I think Owen did a good job at conveying that in this story. The main draw for this book is the entire world-building.

Leela and Timmi are also nice additions to the cast. Leela and Timmi are two young girls who become friends with Kip and Albert, and together, they all try to solve the riddles before everyone else. Albert is a new friend that Kip makes at the College and I really enjoyed their friendship, they had great chemistry. His need to help his mother is endearing and makes you want to root for him even more. Kip is a great young protagonist to follow with his family life always keeping him grounded and relatable. There were so many great things to love about this book, one of them being the characters. Once enrolled, the entire college becomes engrossed in a 400-year-old riddle set by Eartha Quicksmith herself, and there are ten riddles to solve in ten days!

It's a place for people who think differently to everyone else, where science is the magic behind everything. One day, Kip receives a strange riddle from a drone, and the riddle leads him to an entirely new world, that of Quicksmith's College of Strange Energy. His sister has been missing for years and his mother hasn't been the same since a strange lightning-strike affected her memory. Kip is a young boy who lives with his father. You can't help but read this and imagine that anything is possible and there's still so much of the world to discover. A fast-paced adventure imbued with the true magic of science and all the limitless possibilities of the world.

The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith by Loris Owen