'Spring' for youths only

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: September 17, 2006| Author: Dennis Lythgoe Deseret Morning News | Copyright information

ENDYMION SPRING, by Matthew Skelton, Delacorte Press, 392 pages, $17.95

Be careful of the heavy promotion on this one. Is "Endymion Spring" the biggest hit since Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"? Or is it a "Da Vinci Code" for young people?

There is an element of truth in each of these comparisons --think "overkill" -- and either of them would be OK with the publisher, Delacourte Press, which is enthusiastically issuing 150,000 copies of the book ...

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