Will is running in the forest as fast as he can and suddenly the great tentacle grabs him. All he can see is darkness. Just then a cap fly’s toward's him. “Ahh!!” Will wakes up from his scary dream. This is one of the many trials I think will happen in the tripod trilogy. I think that in the next book the author will plan for a battle of the tripods and mankind. Also, I think that Henry Beanpole and Will might have to go back to England and find other brave kids to travel to the White Mountains and be free of the tripods rule. After that, they might even find the tripods are attacking the White Mountains then they will have to fight them off to save the others. But whatever happens I think it will be an exciting book.

My opinion of the book is that the writer had put an action thing into a boring subject. It needed more action and adventure. I did not like the book as much as the other I have read such as Maroo and Mafatu.