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Okay, i need some help here.

There was this trilogy of books i read years ago but I'm conviced it's lost media. I don't know the author ir anything but a few random details.

There were these three kids, two boys and a girl. And each kid was attached to a magic book of sorts. A book of time , life and the girls was connected to the book of death. And there was a this evil which that wanted their powers and kept trying to force them to bond to these books.

The one scene i remember clearly: So the bad guys cornered the girls and since it hurt to bind to the book of death they stabbed her hand into the book so she couldn't move it.

I think there was possibly a time traveling train but I'm not sure, please tell me I'm not going crazy, I know I read this trilogy.
The Gatekeepers series (also known as The Power of Five) by Anthony Horowitz?
WakeUpAndLive~doingNaNo'24 Author Icon - I don't think so, mainly becase the book was a trilogy, but it seems like a good book, but I'll have to check as i remeber so little
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott?
I just have an odd question? If you were reading a dystopian book and there were a few chapters that were from a banned history book of that world, would you read those chapters?

I'm wondering if it's worth it to put effort into a 'history book' inside the book
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Full chapters might not be read.

However, there are two ways I have seen it done in the past:

First is having various excerpts from the book appear as chapters openings. I have this a lot, and it works. None went longer than half a page, and in all cases, it really helped contextualise the world in which we found ourselves.

Second, and this is clunkier, but it can work if done well, is have a character read from it at times. Or, if the character is that way inclined, recite it as they have memorised it.

There is a third time, and this I have seen used only once, and this in a classic comedy book, is have excerpts appear at random, giving context to the story, but also serving almost as scene breaks. That book? The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (and its numerous sequels, but it's all the same thing).
My gut says that excerpts from the banned history books are the way to go, as opposed to full chapters. Frank Herbert uses excerpts to great effect in Dune.
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