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1. Precedent
Def.- A legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
2. Egregious
Def.- Extraordinaryinsomebadway;glaring;
3. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Def.- An obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language.
Morpheus Road: The Light
by D.J MacHale
p.1-p.341
rating: 7.5/10
Morpheus Road: The Light is by the author of the Pendragon series, and focuses on Marshall Seaver a high school student, who is being haunted. It starts with Cooper Foley, Marshall's best friend sent to a solitary summer in a log cabin going missing. Marshall , after breaking a glass ball belonging to his mother, is haunted by the character that he created, the gravedigger. Marshall and Coopers sister try to locate cooper and why gravedigger drives people mad and keeps asking Marshall to walk the Morpheus Road with him, and eventually the book ends it a over the top, blow-your-mind finale that has so many spoilers I wont even describe it here. The Light falls into the "fantasy-horror" genre, which works with MacHale's style of writing really well, his precise description and well-worked plot keeps the story moving at a breathless pace without it feeling rushed. Another thing i loved was the eerie feeling created while reading this book that's scary without being overly bloody or gory. The book really toys with your mind and keeps you on the edge of your toes ad leaves you wondering what happens next. Of course, I've come to expect this from MacHale in the Pendragon series, it's just great that he could continue that great style of writing in this new series. There also is one thing i didn't like about this book was that it was somewhat hard to follow, especially near the end. MacHale is known to have complicated plots with a giant build up and a explosion of a finale, and this is no different. What this results in is sequences where i had re-read pages or several pages to really understand the book. In fact I read the last 50 or so pages again because the ending was so intricate. This is actually the main problem I had with "The Soldiers of Halla", the last and my least favorite of the Pendragon books. This guy really loves epic finales for books, even if he has to throw in something that's totally unrelated to what's happened leading up to the ending. It's like having the epic ending of Lord of the Rings 3 being the end to Lord of the Rings 1. The Ending and the rest of the story just don't match.Other than that issue, this was a great book and I recommend this to anyone who likes mystery, fantasy, and horror.
1. Precedent
Def.- A legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
2. Egregious
Def.- Extraordinaryinsomebadway;glaring;
3. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Def.- An obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language.
Morpheus Road: The Light
by D.J MacHale
p.1-p.341
rating: 7.5/10
Morpheus Road: The Light is by the author of the Pendragon series, and focuses on Marshall Seaver a high school student, who is being haunted. It starts with Cooper Foley, Marshall's best friend sent to a solitary summer in a log cabin going missing. Marshall , after breaking a glass ball belonging to his mother, is haunted by the character that he created, the gravedigger. Marshall and Coopers sister try to locate cooper and why gravedigger drives people mad and keeps asking Marshall to walk the Morpheus Road with him, and eventually the book ends it a over the top, blow-your-mind finale that has so many spoilers I wont even describe it here. The Light falls into the "fantasy-horror" genre, which works with MacHale's style of writing really well, his precise description and well-worked plot keeps the story moving at a breathless pace without it feeling rushed. Another thing i loved was the eerie feeling created while reading this book that's scary without being overly bloody or gory. The book really toys with your mind and keeps you on the edge of your toes ad leaves you wondering what happens next. Of course, I've come to expect this from MacHale in the Pendragon series, it's just great that he could continue that great style of writing in this new series. There also is one thing i didn't like about this book was that it was somewhat hard to follow, especially near the end. MacHale is known to have complicated plots with a giant build up and a explosion of a finale, and this is no different. What this results in is sequences where i had re-read pages or several pages to really understand the book. In fact I read the last 50 or so pages again because the ending was so intricate. This is actually the main problem I had with "The Soldiers of Halla", the last and my least favorite of the Pendragon books. This guy really loves epic finales for books, even if he has to throw in something that's totally unrelated to what's happened leading up to the ending. It's like having the epic ending of Lord of the Rings 3 being the end to Lord of the Rings 1. The Ending and the rest of the story just don't match.Other than that issue, this was a great book and I recommend this to anyone who likes mystery, fantasy, and horror.
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