The Purple Emperor

by Herbie Brennan

Book Overview

When Henry Atherton returned to his own life in the suburbs of London, he thought all was well in the Faerie Ream. His new friend Pyrgus, the crown prince of Faerie, was about to be coronated as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439808359
• ISBN13: 9780439808354
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More adventure

This is the 2nd book of the series Faerie Wars. I actually liked this one better than the first. This book takes place mostly in the Faerie World. There we meet up with characters from the first book like Pyrgus, Henry, Mr. Fogarty, Blue, Hairstreak, Brimstone, etc. It picks up a couple weeks after the last one left off. Pyrgus is getting ready to become Emperor but he doesn't really want to. All of the sudden he finds out that he doesn't have to because his deceased father is back. From there it justs rolls with adventure for everyone. I personally didn't have a problem with the abrupt ending. I know sequels sometimes do that and looking for to book 3 - Ruler of the Realm to clear things up.

I loved it!

Personally I don't really like to read so the books that I actually do are usually pretty good. I was afraid that I would not know what was going on since it was a sequel but I wasn't the least bit lost at all. This book was perfect it had so much going on and it kept you waiting to see what would happen next. I could not put this book down; I read it all within a week. Herbie Brennan did a wonderful job and I look forward to reading the first book. It had the perfect balance between action, romance, drama, a bit of horror. It had it all! It had such a wide variety of characters from little worms that lived inside your head, an actual human, fairies, and more.

great book

The book The emperor by Herbie Brennan is an interesting book for all ages. This book is a sequel to the book Faerie Wars. The book Faerie wars is also a great book.If you love faerie tales and real life stories you would love this book. The book Purple Emperor is about Princess Blue, Prince Prygus, Mr.Frogarty, and Henry and theire adventures. Prygus is destined to become the purple emperor, the person who rules over faerie world. Prygus has many enemies including an evil dark faerie, Hairstreak, who wants to become the purple emperor. Hairstreak has to get through Prygus, Blue, Henry, Mr. Frogarty, and many others to become the purple emperor. The bad thing is that Hairstreak has both Pyrgus's and Blue's fathers' body which he has turned into a walking zombie which he controls. What would they do to destroy Hairstreaks plan of becoming Purple Emperor?

Richie's Picks: THE PURPLE EMPEROR

Those Bad Boys from the Chalkhill and Brimstone Miracle Glue factory are back: "The worm was more like an eel or a snake, except it was segmented and protected by a natural, glistening armoured shell. It stared at Chalkhill with black, beady eyes from the bottom of a heated glass tank." I'm generally resistant to writing about sequels. Indeed, I oftentimes procrastinate as far as reading them myself. If I've done my best to persuade readers to check out a great book, I figure they'll either want to read the sequel when it appears or they won't. "It didn't sound too bad to Chalkhill. 'What do I do? Keep the worm with me in my pocket? Something of that sort?' "The Facemaster hesitated. 'Ah...not exactly. The symbiote must be absorbed into your body.' "Chalkhill's jaw dropped. 'I have to swallow it?' "The Facemaster shook his head. 'Human saliva is toxic to the species. Consequently the insertion must be made in one nostril. The worm slides down your throat, crawls through the stomach into the large intestine, thence to the small intestine and, ultimately. the bowel, where it takes up permanent residence in your bottom.' " Sounds uncomfortable, but it is actually that worm's butting in on Chalkhill's thoughts and conversations once it's taken up residence in his south end that becomes the bane of his despicable existence: "Do be quiet, be quiet, be quiet! Chalkhill screamed inside his skull. The worm had talked non-stop from the moment it was inserted. If it went on very much longer, he was going to go mad. 'Why won't this thing shut up?' he asked the Facemaster. " 'The worm? They do that, I'm afraid. Most people get used to it eventually.' " 'Most people?' Chalkhill echoed. 'What about the ones who don't?' " 'They usually hang themselves.' " 'Which creates an interesting legal dilemma,' said the worm in Chalkhill's mind, having clearly eavesdropped on the spoken conversation. 'Should one bring a charge of suicide or murder? There are those lawyers who hold that the symbiotic relationship creates, in effect, a new entity, in which case hanging must be deemed an act of suicide. But there are others who would argue that the two sentient entities--wangaramas wyrm and faerie--remain distinct, if interlinked, in which case the suicide of one involves the murder of the other. In Jessup v. Trentonelf, however, Lord Justice Bedstraw ruled on the possibility of collusion by the wangaramas, which raises the spectre of assisted suicide, an offence in itself which, while carrying a lesser penalty than first degree murder, will nonetheless--' " 'Can't they just have the worm removed?' asked Chalkhill, desperately ignoring the inner monologue. 'Can't I just have the worm removed?' He could just possibly survive until he slaughtered Pyrgus at his Coronation, but after that he wanted the worm out again within the hour." Sadly for Chalkhill, the removal procedure takes six months. And sadly for you--if you haven't yet read FAE

Awesome Sequal

I loved it! I loved the first one and now the second one is great. I recomend this to someone looking for an easy read. Maybe not a light read but it is not difficult to understand. my only ish with this book is that since it jumps between characters you may be dying to hear about one then have to wait a few chapters. That's okay though due to the fact that the chapters are short sweet and to the point.