This is a brilliant story, hugely imaginative, with high stakes and fantastic characters. If she loses, Mahishasura will break into Kiki’s world through her bedroom, no doubt killing the first person he meets (Kiki’s Mum) before enslaving the human race. Kiki has to enter her sketchbook and the world she drew to help The Crows defeat the demons – but if she succeeds in destroying Mahishasura, the world and her new friends she makes there will cease to exist. The Crows are locked into an endless battle with the Asura that they cannot win, while Mahishasura plots to break into Kiki’s world to enslave it. When through a series of unexpected circumstances, her drawings of the world of Mysore, featuring the demon god Mahishasura and his demon Asura from Indian folklore, complete with the kid rebels of her own invention, The Crows, spring to life, Kiki has to face problems many times greater than any she imagined. Knowing her fears are irrational doesn’t help Kiki, although she gets some solace when she draws, losing herself in her sketches. Even out with her friends, she worries over whether she locked the front door of her home, and imagines a stream of catastrophes from a burglar to a goose breaking in and attacking her mother.
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