So, I've decided to make Thursday my book review day. Maybe someday, I will also put in author interviews and reviews of their books, but for now, I'll keep it simple and just summarize books I've read.
Beyonders: Seeds of Rebellion is a sequel to Brandon Mull's Beyonders: A World Without Heroes, which coincidentally snagged me by the simple paragraph on the dust jacket:
By reading these words you have nominated yourself to recover the key word. Move swiftly. The knowledge you now possess marks you for prompt execution. The first syllable is "A."
Jason, a beyonder from our world is accidentally swallowed by a hippopotamus of all things and sent to an alternate reality, Lyrian, where he's thrust into the role of hero, meeting all sorts of well-crafted characters, one of whom is a beyonder like him as well.
In Seeds of Rebellion, Jason frantically tries to find a way back to his friends, to warn them the word is a fraud and to try to help Rachel return home. Returning the same way Jason came, he's shadowed by a torivor, plagued by nightmares, almost eaten by giants, narrowly escapes from a horde of zombies, and captured by Maldor's conscriptors again. And that's the easy part. At the conclusion Jason's new quest is to find the Seer Darian the Pyromancer without the aid of his most loyal friends.
Brandon is the author of two other series, Fablehaven and the Candy Shop Wars. He is an amazing wordsmith, conjuring a world that takes life on the page, transporting me into it. Through his humor and word magic and peril fraught adventure, I could hardly put it down.
To see a full list of Brandon's work visit brandonmull.com or find him on facebook.
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