That's right, another Pendragon Review! I'll keep the reviews of my personal #1 series coming! There's something different about this book, though. Here's a clue: check your history books!
Pendragon: The Never War
By: DJ MacHale
Review By: Chase Pixley
Cloral was a sad win for Bobby Pendragon. After saving Cloral his uncle Press died from bullets coming through the flume. After his funeral Bobby and Traveler from Cloral Vo Spader follow Saint Dane to Veelox, where local Traveler Aja Killian tells them that Saint Dane is on First Earth.
Jumping into the flume they appear in... a familiar subway tunnel. Welcome to First Earth, A.K.A 1937. There they meet Vincent “Gunny” Van Dike, called so because he couldn’t bring himself to fire a gun during his time in World War I. He is also the Traveler from First Earth. New York City in 1937 was an exciting place, full of toothpaste powder, The Great depression, post World War II... and the doomed Hindenburg zeppelin.
Bobby and friends quickly find that the Hindenburg’s crash is First Earth’s turning point. Dodging gangsters, rivalries and Saint Dane himself, they try to stop the famous crash. Bobby has stopped wars and decimated plagues, so how hard could stopping a simple zeppelin crash shouldn’t be too hard... should it?
Being book 3 in this unmatched series is a true honor, as is getting to read it. This is not the NYC you now. This story is full of mysteries in a familiar setting with yet more confusion than the first two books. With a gripping yet semi-historic storyline, this book almost turns the pages by itself. With 6 stars this book says "Read on"!
Friday, May 7, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
A Bitter Enemy
I read this book for two reasons: because I loved the rest of the series and I am doing a school report on it. Arch Enemy is a great book, as is my review...
Arch Enemy
By: Frank Beddor
A Review by: Chase Pixley
All imagination is gone from Wonderland thanks to King Arch of Borderland’s Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation, or WILMA. Queen Alyss Heart is barely holding on to the throne of Wonderland while one of Wonderland’s four founding families, the Clubs, are believed to be responsible for the disappearance of imaginationists throughout the kingdom.
Milliners Hatter Madigan and Homburg Molly, on top of Talon Point grieving for the loss of Weaver, Hatter’s wife and Molly’s mother. As father and daughter returned to civilization the blue caterpillar oracle gave a prophecy to Molly: you. At the same time, while spying on an anti-imagination meeting she and guardsman Dodge Anders are captured and trapped in “limbo coops”, or tiny holding pens for imaginationists. Meanwhile, Redd Heart and her top mercenaries were turned on by Arch and became fugitives from Borderland’s king.
Can these groups put aside their former hate and work together to reclaim Wonderland? How does Alyss truly feel about Dodge? And, most importantly, who is the fabled “Everqueen”?
The final book in the trilogy, it deserves a place on the shelf of Classics right there next to the original “Alice in Wonderland”. There is never a stop in the twisting mysteries, the stunning betrayals, or the breakneck pace. This is the perfect ending to the trilogy. Though this story is great, you may want to begin with the heart-stopping book “The Looking Glass Wars” also by Frank Beddor.
Arch Enemy
By: Frank Beddor
A Review by: Chase Pixley
All imagination is gone from Wonderland thanks to King Arch of Borderland’s Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation, or WILMA. Queen Alyss Heart is barely holding on to the throne of Wonderland while one of Wonderland’s four founding families, the Clubs, are believed to be responsible for the disappearance of imaginationists throughout the kingdom.
Milliners Hatter Madigan and Homburg Molly, on top of Talon Point grieving for the loss of Weaver, Hatter’s wife and Molly’s mother. As father and daughter returned to civilization the blue caterpillar oracle gave a prophecy to Molly: you. At the same time, while spying on an anti-imagination meeting she and guardsman Dodge Anders are captured and trapped in “limbo coops”, or tiny holding pens for imaginationists. Meanwhile, Redd Heart and her top mercenaries were turned on by Arch and became fugitives from Borderland’s king.
Can these groups put aside their former hate and work together to reclaim Wonderland? How does Alyss truly feel about Dodge? And, most importantly, who is the fabled “Everqueen”?
The final book in the trilogy, it deserves a place on the shelf of Classics right there next to the original “Alice in Wonderland”. There is never a stop in the twisting mysteries, the stunning betrayals, or the breakneck pace. This is the perfect ending to the trilogy. Though this story is great, you may want to begin with the heart-stopping book “The Looking Glass Wars” also by Frank Beddor.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Below The Surface
Three things on today's post: first, on Monday, April 19th My Pendragon Review appeared on the bookshop blog! Second: on Monday, May 10th my first ARC review (Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror) will appear on the bookshop blog. Third: one of my newest ARCs, Dark Life by Kat Falls, brought me under the sea! Read for yourself...
Dark Life
By: Kat Falls
A Review By: Chase Pixley
In hundreds of years a semi Armageddon will come when the seas rise and cover most of the land and making entire countries collapse into the ocean. People will be forced to live in one of two places: on cramped stack cities on the little land that has not been flooded... or subsea in Bethnic Territory, a place created by scientists as a solution to the stack cities.
Ty was the first kid born in Bethnic Territory and has spent all his life either in or on the water. One day, while visiting Coldsleep Canyon (an underwater canyon that held most of the US’s eastern coast) he meets Gemma, the younger sister of a prospector who went missing. As Ty tries to teach the “topsider” about life subsea the commonwealth government decides that they had enough with the terrible “Seablight Gang”, a robber gang that attacks government ships. They decide to send Bethnic Territory on the search to flush out the gang. The Commonwealth won’t send any more supplies to the trade station, they are reassigning their only doctor to mainland, and all rising homesteads will be seized. Only after the outlaws are caught will the government “consider the benefits of helping Bethnic Territory flourish. It seems helpless to the Bethnic people to capture the gang and their phantom-like leader Shade, a heavily-muscled albino with no sense of mercy. Can Bethnic Territory be saved?
This is one of many five-star books on my book shelf. It spins a tale of love, danger, and deception. Dark Life has a surprise around every turn, a new danger in every chapter, and enough secrets to blow your mind. This is one story that you truly must not judge by its cover. Recommendations? Kids who are fond of action. Read it in May 2010.
Dark Life
By: Kat Falls
A Review By: Chase Pixley
In hundreds of years a semi Armageddon will come when the seas rise and cover most of the land and making entire countries collapse into the ocean. People will be forced to live in one of two places: on cramped stack cities on the little land that has not been flooded... or subsea in Bethnic Territory, a place created by scientists as a solution to the stack cities.
Ty was the first kid born in Bethnic Territory and has spent all his life either in or on the water. One day, while visiting Coldsleep Canyon (an underwater canyon that held most of the US’s eastern coast) he meets Gemma, the younger sister of a prospector who went missing. As Ty tries to teach the “topsider” about life subsea the commonwealth government decides that they had enough with the terrible “Seablight Gang”, a robber gang that attacks government ships. They decide to send Bethnic Territory on the search to flush out the gang. The Commonwealth won’t send any more supplies to the trade station, they are reassigning their only doctor to mainland, and all rising homesteads will be seized. Only after the outlaws are caught will the government “consider the benefits of helping Bethnic Territory flourish. It seems helpless to the Bethnic people to capture the gang and their phantom-like leader Shade, a heavily-muscled albino with no sense of mercy. Can Bethnic Territory be saved?
This is one of many five-star books on my book shelf. It spins a tale of love, danger, and deception. Dark Life has a surprise around every turn, a new danger in every chapter, and enough secrets to blow your mind. This is one story that you truly must not judge by its cover. Recommendations? Kids who are fond of action. Read it in May 2010.
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