Since Suzanne Collins' 2006 children's novel Gregor and the Marks of Secret directly ties in with The Underland Chronicles' previous book, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, my review here will necessarily involve some plot spoilers...you may want to stop and catch up reading the series for yourself first. After the previous book's plague has been resolved, Gregor, a boy who with his mother and baby sister Boots has voyaged deep under the Earth's surface in response to an urgent plea from the human inhabitants there, finds himself the subject of yet another prophecy...this one is held secret from him, though. Down here the animals are human-size, intelligent, and speak his language...how convenient. A war is developing between the rats, lead by an albino called the Bane (read book #2), and pretty much everyone else...including spiders, cockroaches, people, bats...and especially the mice, caller "nibblers". Gregor and his party set out to see about rescuing the persecuted mice and make some grisly discoveries. The ending segues directly, I'm sure, into the final book of this five-part series. Not exactly my favorite series in this genre of children's fantasy fiction, but Collins has skillfully built up the suspense and presented the characters to the point where I care about what happens to them at the end of it all...so of course I'm checking out that last volume...
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