I’ve been waiting exactly a year for the second Beyonders book. I read A World Without Heroes at family camp last year. This year I checked out Seeds of Rebellion to read at camp once again. We leave today but, ahem, I finished the book last night. Drat! I did have a little trouble recalling details from the first book. People and places were mentioned that I couldn’t remember right away, but most of the time I figured them out through context. I fear I’ll have the same trouble next time; the fi More...

The beginning of this book takes off, as most sequels do, after the first. However some time does pass in the real world. The story's main character, Jason Walker, soon travels back to the magical world of Lyrian in order to pass on urgent information concerning the battle against Maldor. The story introduces a few new creatures , that at the least had been mentioned in the first. The characters how were more or less defined in the first are given greater attention as well as the book introduces More...

Bought and read after a few weeks since the first book. It begins where the first book ends. If you haven't read it yet, don't read this review because you'll surely be spoiled.

Anyway, we begin with how Galloran was sent by the Oracle to look for the Word. Her prophecy is an eerie reminder of what we already know about Galloran. Then back to the present where Jason is trying to go back to Lyrian. He is troubled because of the secret he knows and he wants to somehow pass it on. He goes to the hip More...

The Beyonders series are one of the greatest novels I've read in a long time. The Author is Brandon Mull, and he has written other series like the Candy Shop War series and one of my other favorites, The Fablehaven series. It has 512 pages, and even though it was long, I enjoyed every minute of it! The intended audience is children about 12 years old and older, unless younger kids want to read it with their parents.

The main issue in this book is Jason needs to get back to Lyrian to save the peo More...

Setting- The setting in this story in this book it is lyrain it is the place and the only place were it can goon as I've said in my first review about the first book.

Main Characters- protagonists- Jason, Rachel, The blind king(Galoran), and children of the seed and Ferin at times. Antagonists- Maldor and all of his mystical beings that he himself has created and his Followers.

Summary- Jason is back on earth but he gets bored of it and decides to return to lyrain by entering the mouth of a hippo More...

The Beyonders series is definitely my favorite of Brandon Mull's books. The world-building is creative, though it sometimes detracts from the character-building, which still falls short of what I'd like to see. Seeds of Rebellion continues the intensity that was set in the first novel, and expands upon the quest to free the world from the evil emperor.

My only real gripe with this series is that Jason and Rachel do not act like 13 year old kids. They hardly act like mature teenagers. I can suspen More...

By Brandon Mull
486 pages
Fantasy
Beyonders: Seeds of Rebellion (2nd book in series)

Jason is in the human world from his narrow escape from the Beyond (a world which he traveled to in the last book). He plans to go back and warn the others (Rachel and the group she is with) that the word which was supposed to defeat Maldor (the villain) was a fraud. Jason arrives in the Beyond through a hippopotamus at the zoo. After, Jason meets up with Tark who is a musician and tries to find Aram who is a mercen More...

In book two of Beyonders Matt returns to Lyrian to face the evil wizard Maldor. Since Matt's dispatch from Lyrian, Maldor has gathared many more forces to his evil cause. Matt must rescue his friends that "the word" used to destroy Maldor is a fraud. He embarks on a journy of exitement,truth,lies,and unimagineable darkness. Will Matt and his friends save Lyrian from Maldors dark grasp, or will his shadow reign forever?
I can relate this book to another series,The Fire Stone. In The Fire Stone,t More...

Brandon Mull has created an amazing world, and some amazing races. I think that as far as fantasy worlds go, this is one of the best laid out and most imaginative. The different people and food descriptions are so detailed, I feel like I am there meeting them, eating the food, and saving the world.

So, why only three stars? I have been having a difficult time connecting with the characters. Something I loved about the Fablehaven series that Brandon Mull wrote was that the characters and world we More...

This is the sequel to A World Without Heroes, which I read last Christmas before giving the book to one of my grandsons, and you ought to read that book before this one or it will not make much sense. Of course, unless you can suspend your disbelief readily, it might not make much sense even then. I gave the predecessor three small stars; I’ll give this three big ones, but I cannot elevate it to four stars, which I hold in the “ought to read” category. I have been checking every time I went into More...

I thought Beyonders was a very good book. It had some adventure in it which I like adventure. It had some fighting, and some problem solving. It had a wide variety of different things in it. It had zombies, to wizards, to people called displacers who could pull their limbs off and will and it not affect them. My favorite character is by far Jason. He is athletic; I like people who are athletic. Apparently he is handsome, and he is very nice. But when it comes to sword fighting he is a little clu More...

I'm giving this book a 4.5--and rounding up.

The second book in the Beyonders series, this book plunged us even more into the fantasy world and deeper into the characters lives and motivations. This reminds me of many fantasy series, where the first book is focused on one or two characters, and in the second the cast grows and story lines weave more complex lines as the story conflict becomes more global. Many more characters had defining moments and were forced to prove their mettle, yet the st More...

This world is so rich, so fun, and Brandon Mull's imagination is so vast that I kept thinking, "This book should be better."

And when I was reminded of the language of this book as I read "The Magic Treehouse" to my 4 year old, I decided that what Brandon Mull really has is an editing problem.

His editor for Fablehaven is not the same as for this series, and I just can't help but think that this is the main problem. The sentence structures are inconsistent, with language ranging from cluttered and More...

Over the last year, I've wondered what Brandon Mull would do with Rachel stuck in Lyrian and Jason back home in the "Beyond". But no fear, Mull transports Jason back to Lyrian in the very first chapter, though he does it in such a way that makes me question whether Jason will ever make it back to the Beyond...not just the feasibility of it, but whether Jason will even want to go back. He immediately meets up with Tark, encounters a curious race of giants (that are midgets during the day and gian More...

By the end I was almost ready to give this book five stars. The concluding chapter packed a powerful emotional punch.

I think what I love most about Brandon Mull's books is that it's easily believable. There is no wasted space on boring histories of the world, Lyrian just...is. It exists, Jason and Rachel are there, displacers, manglers, Edomic....it all seems perfectly natural. I felt like I understood the world perfectly. Sometimes fantasy series spend so much time trying to explain the world, More...

I really, really wanted to love this, but... I didn't :(

I was a huge fan of Brandon Mull's Fablehaven and enjoyed his first Beyonders novel. I was excited to check out his next book, and freaked out when I received this in the mail, my very first ARC :) . Unfortunately, the problems that started with the first book persisted through the second, and I found it difficult to finish.

My main issue was the character development, or lack of, I should say. The author seemed to skip over his characters t More...

Ever since I read Beyonders: A World Without Heroes last year, I've been looking forward to the sequel! And truly, Seeds of Rebellion did not disappoint me.

The first thing I noticed was that Brandon Mull was able to effectively review the characters of the first book without doing the annoying "this is what happened in the first book" recap. I appreciated this more than I expected because I wanted to dive right into the story....but I also knew that it has been about a year since I read the firs More...

Another fantastic fantasy book by Brandon Mull! Full of action, imagination, and detail, this foreign world becomes believable in your mind. This series is incredibly well thought out so that trivial questions are answered before you even know you have them, leaving room for the greater puzzle to be worked out. As many questions are answered, new questions and new suspicions arise. The locations with their inherent dangers are completely original, yet well described. I love reading books by this More...

I was so excited for this book and it did not disappoint me in the least, but now I have to wait for the next one. One of the things that I love about Brandon Mull is the fact that his characters develop as the story progresses. I liked Jason and Rachel in the last book but in this one we really see who they are. Sometimes it is when the character's don't have as much of a choice in what they do that you see their true character.

The story starts with Jason back at home. He is worried about Rach More...

Jason's home, but it's getting pretty boring being home, and he can't forget about Rachel, mostly because her parents are doing such a great job keeping her disappearance in the media. He feels bad that he can't share with them that she's okay. Jason keeps going back to the zoo and visiting the hippo in the hopes that the same gateway to Lyrian will open for him again, but he hasn't had any luck. Until one day, he's staring at the hippo when the little boy next to him remarks about the music tha More...

The second installment to the Beyonders trilogy, Brandon Mull does a fantastic job of improving and building up the world he so effortlessly created. Packed with imagination, detail and adventure, Seeds of Rebellion engages the reader in a magical world where the fight for freedom is the only way of survival. It is easy to fall in step with old and new characters and there's plenty of space for speculation of what each character's role is in their cause.
Personally, I am much more interested in s More...

If you have not finished the fist book do not read this...(spoiler alert)

This book was about two people from Earth that got magically Transported to a land called Lyrian. In this land there is a Wizard named Maldor, he is the ruler of the lands. Most people in Lyrian dislike Maldor because he will do anything to get what he wants and is known for his despicable ways. Jason and Rachel(the people from earth) are the two people who are called upon to help. In the first book the two heros are search More...

I think this book was very exciting and adventurous. Brandon Mull does a great job describing everything that is happening and keeping the action up so it seems like it is always the climax or rising action of the story. One of my favorite parts is when the heroes journey to Ebera, The Forgotten Kingdom. I like that part because it is really tense and full of action. Everytime I stopped reading this book, I wanted to keep reading again right away.

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Seeds Of Rebellion.
Second Book in the Beyonders Series.

I am a huge fan of this series. I loved the first book and i loved the second book more if it is even possible.
It is one of the best and original book under Fantasy genre you will find out there.

I am going to write just the things i liked about this book and the series,

Firstly, I liked it originality of the series.
Whenever i see a new book under Fantasy & YA genre, i secretly think if it has got Elves, Dwarfs, Dragons, Zombies or Fai More...

I really like this series. As the middle book, it did everything it was suppose to and more. I love his style and his descriptive abilities.

Her current vantage point commanded a depressing view of the muddy shore where the sucking marshland gave way to the black water of the swamp. A miasmic haze had muted the recent sunrise. Tall trees grew up out of the water, widespread branches interlocking like giant umbrellas. Bedraggled foliage hung in long streamers from the trunks and limbs. In the di More...

The last book in this series got me so excited, I loved it so much; but I won't rant about that, that review still exists.

My main problem with this book is that it lacks ones of the things that got me so excited last time; that being that the main characters (including the protagonist) were just normal people, in this book every one has special powers or abilities that make them amazing heroes useful to the rebellion except for the main character. I understand if you want to have powerful charac

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First of all, I love the title of this book and its multiple meanings. Read it and you'll understand. Second, Mr. Mull neatly and cleanly directed the narrative into three distinct acts. I've seen other authors attempt to do this with sections or "books", but it's not always so natural. Maybe I haven't noticed it and it's been there in many other books, but I saw it very clearly with Seeds of Rebellion. It flows and progresses naturally and smoothly. The book moves quickly and you get drawn in j More...

One thing I really like about Brandon Mull is that his writing is so inventive and it feels different. He's got a crazy good imagination, and it shines through in his writing, especially in this series. There are none of the typical elves, dwarves, and wizards. There are fantasy races in this book that are completely different, and if I'm honest, so different I can't even picture them. But that's not a bad thing. It's great to read something new and fresh.

The writing is solid and there's a lot o More...

Much like my review for Beyonders #1, this book follows the same course...The Quest. Some new races and unique interactions that haven't surfaced thus far in other books of this type. Even an unexpected show of zombies of all things. I certainly wasn't bored by this book, and I was very interested in getting through it having a hard time putting it down. But it wasn't the amazing originality of the storyline that kept me interested, it was the interplay of the characters and the suspense. Mull h More...