Currently Reading: The Gauntlet

I'm continuing with my To Be Read List challenge and right now I'm still picking older books that have been on my shelves for quite some time that I just hadn't gotten around to reading. When I was searching through one of my bookcases, it didn't take me long before I found The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi. I can't believe it's been eight years since I bought this book.

The Gauntlet is a fantasy adventure book that according to the description has three friends trapped in a board game. Yeah, love that it's described as a steampunk Middle Eastern Jumanji. I remember when I bought this, how I couldn't wait to read it. As I keep saying, it's never too late to read a book. I think this story just seems so interesting.

Book: The Gauntlet (The Gauntlet book #1) by Karuna Riazi

Description:

A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that’s a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair.

Nothing can prepare you for The Gauntlet…

It didn’t look dangerous, exactly. When twelve-year-old Farah first laid eyes on the old-fashioned board game, she thought it looked…elegant.

It is made of wood, etched with exquisite images—a palace with domes and turrets, lattice-work windows that cast eerie shadows, a large spider—and at the very center of its cover, in broad letters, is written: The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand.

The Gauntlet is more than a game, though. It is the most ancient, the most dangerous kind of magic. It holds worlds inside worlds. And it takes players as prisoners.