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Beyonders: A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
Rating:Characters: 17/20Plot: 19/20Originality: 18/20Writing: 19/20Recomendation: 20/20Overall: 93/100 or A-Source: Library Summary: Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable–until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason transporting from the hippo tank into a strange, imperiled world.Lyrian is full of dangers and challenges unlike any place Jason has ever…
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Call of the Sea
One of those good men of the seaI know that I will never be. The sea that whispers in my earThe sea that I can never hear. Not even one made from my boneA ship that I will never own. I am asleep, awake I mustBut I cannot for I am dust. That yesteryear I…
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Fallen Dreams
My dreams are lined up, upon a wallOne by one they begin to fallThey land with a crashon my head with a bashAnd I begin to feel not so tall But then I remember not to despairFor life ahead of me is many a stairI collect my dreamsStitched back at the seamsAnd venture out again…
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Abarat by Clive Barker
Rating:Characters: 20/20Plot: 19/20Originality: 20/20Writing: 20/20Recommendation: 20/20Overall: 99/100 or A+Source: Library Summary: Once upon a world, where time is place, a journey beyond imagination is about to unfold. . . . It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what…
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Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull
Rating: Characters: 19/19 Plot: 20/20 Originality: 19/19 Writing: 18/20 Recommendation: 20/20 Overall: 96/100 or A Source: Library Summary: After many centuries of plotting, the Sphinx–leader of the Society of the Evening Star– is after the final artifacts needed to open the great demon prison, Zzyxx. Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn are in a…
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Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary by Brandon Mull
Rating: Characters: 20/20 Plot: 19/20 Originality: 19/20 Writing: 19/20 Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 96/100 or A Source: Library Summary: Brace yourself for a shocking secret. Two hidden artifacts have been found. Three more remain unrecovered. More preserves face destruction as the Society of the Evening Star relentlessly pursues new talismans. Reading in Patton’s Journal of Secrets,…
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Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague by Brandon Mull
Rating: Characters: 18/20 Plot: 19/20 Originality: 20/20 Writing: 19/20 Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 95/100 or A Source: Library Summary: Picking up where the last novel left off, Kendra and Seth are still at Fablehaven with their grandparents. Suspicions have been cast on the Sphinx and his loyalties. Kendra has been recruited as a Knight, and the family…
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True Life
A muse has bestowed upon me the gift of an insight and after much pondering I am ready to write about it. 😉 I haven’t posted anything philosophical or spiritual for a while as most of my recent musings have been more of the internal, reflective type. That still really isn’t much of an…
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Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull
Rating: Characters: 18/20 Plot: 19/20 Originality: 20/20 Writing:18/20 Recommendation: 19/2 Overall: 94/100 or A Source: Library Summary: At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother, Seth, find themselves racing back to Fablehaven. Grandpa Sorenson, the caretaker, invites three specialists — a potion master, a magical relics collector, and a mystical creature trapper…
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Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Rating: Characters: 17/20 Plot: 19/20 Originality: 19/20 Writing: 18/20 (Kind of reminds me of my own) Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 92/100 or A- Source: Library Summary: For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of…
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Septimus Heap: Darke by Angie Sage
Rating: Characters: 19/20 Plot: 20/20 Originality: 20/20 (A worthy epitome of ultimate creativity) Writing: 19/20 Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 97/100 or A Source: Library Summary: In the sixth book of the Magykal series, Alther Mella has been Banished, a Darke Domaine engulfs the Castle, and a Darke Dragon is on the loose. Septimus must use all…
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Septimus Heap: Syren by Angie Sage
Rating: Characters: 20/20 Plot: 20/20 (Veryy veryy goodd) Originality: 19/20 Writing: 19/20 Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 97/100 or A Source: Library Summary: In this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one of seven set in a sparkling sea. He’s stranded there with his badly injured dragon, Spit Fyre,…
