I was so right, this was even better than his first book The Journal of Curious Letters. I find I really appreciate the mid grade fantasy books based mostly in reality where the kids figure out mysteries and bravely fight in adult battles that span over a series of books. I discovered this with Harry Potter J.K. Rowling and it wasn't a single phenomenon, I like the Fablehaven series Brandon Mull and now the 13th reality series James Dashner is following in that same vein. This is all super excit More...

The Hunt for Dark Infinity is the next book in the 13th Reality Series, and sequel to the fun and adventurous first book, The Journal of Curious Letters. It fulfills the creative promise and inventiveness that that first book began and, I think, betters it. The Hunt for Dark Infinity takes up the story of 13-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom who, previously, had been introduced to the concept of the "Realities" - alternate versions of the world as we know it - and recruited as a "Realitant" - More...

“The boy stared at his world gone mad.”—begins the second book of the bestselling 13th Reality series: The Hunt for Dark Infinity. The malicious Reginald Chu has devised a way to infiltrate the minds of people and creatures alike—controlling their thoughts, speech and actions.

New Realitants, Tick, Sophia, and Paul, must find a way to penetrate Chu’s destructive creation before he gains control over all the Realities. But they are at the mercy of Chu’s test—as they are winked from one reality to More...

I loved the first book in the series, and this one, The Hunt for Dark Infinity, was equally good. At first I wasn't sure as the first few chapters seemed a little forced, especially when it turned out that Tick and his friends would have new riddles to solve. What, the same thing again?

But when it got going, I was gripped. Again. As with the first book, and all of Dashner's Scorch Trials book, I had to carve out some special reading time during the day, something I hardly ever do. I loved it! In More...

I loved the first book in this series that I read earlier this month (the jouranal of curious letters) and would heartily recommend it to youth and adults. This second book was a good book so far as action goes. It would be very appealing to young readers. With that said, there is definitely more violence in the second book so would not recommend it to young children (you define what that means.) It again exemplifies courage in children and the ability to draw on reservoirs of strenth in times o More...

Tick, Paul and Sofia's summer has been quiet, hot, and uneventful. That is, until an otherworldly device called a Spinner arrives...with a long awaited message from Master George.
The three friends then set off on other momentous adventure--but not all goes as planned. They were supposed to be winked to Master George's headquarters, to help solve the mystery of the millions of people all over the Realities who are going insane.

But instead they find themselves winked to many different and deadly More...

Atticus or “Tick” and his friends Sofia and Paul are back to adventure in this second book of the 13th Reality series. Atticus, Sofia and Paul are spending the summer recovering from their journey into the different realities when they receive another letter from Master George telling them there is a new threat to the survival of the different worlds. Instead of being transported to meet Master George, the three teens have a run in with the evil Mr. Chu who forces them to wear a device that allo More...

I enjoyed this book. This story is about 3 friends--Tick, Paul, and Sofia--and their adventures as members of the Realitant team. This is the 2nd book in The 13th Reality series. Tick, Paul and Sofia solve riddles they believe are sent by Master George, the leader of the Realitants, as further tests on their worthiness to belong to the Realitants. Actually the riddles are sent by Reginald Chu, the evil alterant of Tick's science teacher Mr. Chu. As Tick and his friends solve the riddles they get More...

This is the second (and latest) installment in the 13th Reality series by James Dashner. We bought both of these books for Tritan, and he really seemed to like them.
I faulted the first one for lack of orginality--it read like a Harry Potter knock-off. I can't say that about this one. It is one of the most imaginative books I've read in a while. The story is much more suspenseful and complex than the first one. In fact, it is so much more fantastic and involved, that at times it could be confusi More...

Even though it is typical for fantasy, I got a bit annoyed with Tick being set up as the inexplicable one with amazing powers no one can understand. I still liked the story, I think I have just read too many books with characters like that. I of course still love Mothball and Rutger, and even Sato is beginning to grow on me. Master George wasn't as adorably odd as in the first book, and I didn't much care for him. I also never quite understood the reason the evil Reginald decided to send the kid More...

Title: The 13th Reality: Search for Dark Infinity
Author: James Dashner

This book is about a boy who is nicknamed "Tick" and is a Realitent. A Realitent is a person who works to save the Realitys. So Tick and his two friends Paul and Sofia get a strange message. When they were about to leave to go meet their friend who wrote the strange message a man put a tracker on them and "whisked" them away to a diffrent reality. Then they go threw a bunch of tests not relizing that all of the bad stuff that More...

Tick, Paul, and Sofia - three of the newest Realitants - are kidnapped by the evil Reginald Chu and forced through his tests of merit to see if Tick will be the one to help Chu master his evil new toy, Dark Infinity. Sato is having a rough time on his own, Mistress Jane is trying to turn a new leaf, and Master George and support crew are dealing with some other interesting problems including scores of people across the realities going insane, and Tick's uncontrollable power. Fun, page-turning se More...

This book was about a plague called Dark Infinity that drove everyone insane when infected. Tick, Paul, Sato and Sofia must stop Reginald Chu from infecting people before everyone gets infected. While they are looking for him, they come across many, many strange people.....

I picked this book up because I read the first book, so I wanted to read the next book in the whole series.

I finished this book because it was very interesting, logical, and there were a lot of mystical powers.

I would recc More...

The writing in this second book seems weaker than the first. In reading this book, I mostly read for plot. The characters seem cartoonish and exaggerated: wholly good or evil. The plot is interesting and one character a bit complex but this book seemed like it was written by a different author than the writer of the Maze Runner series. Tick and his two friends are sent on a wild chase of an evil inventor who eventually captures Tick and put him to the test. Tick discovers more about himself. A s More...

Tick and his friends, the Realitants, are contacted by Master George and given the job of saving the realities by stopping the evil Reginald Chu. Chu has created a device, Dark Infinity, that controls peoples minds and has severely disrupted the energy of the various realities. Tick and his friends have to find Dark Infinity and destroy it. They end up having to solve multiple riddles and pass various tests along the way. They also have to deal with the evil, Mistress Jane. The action is good an More...

Psh, forget the Maze Runner series with the seriously messed up government and freaky, insane people, go to the other series of the Dashner Dude. The sci-fi, quantum physics and dimensions, DROP DEAD HILARIOUS series, The 13th Reality.

Seriously, James has outdone himself on these books.

He's taken quantum physics (which the name alone makes me cringe and think of fussy science teachers), and mixed in a couple things to make a FANTASTIC read.

Ingredients:
-Adventurous and spunky teenagers that tot More...

When I first started reading the 13th Reality, I didn't know what to expect. I knew what the story was about from the summary. But other than that, all ideas were either closed off or left wide open. I knew that I should expect a story about a teen boy who has to figure out riddles and learn secrets about the universe and almost life itself, but not like how it was written. This is good. Why? Because it leaves so many doors for the reader to open. What I also love about the series, is that it is More...

Tick’s adventure in the 13 realities continues in this second novel of the series. When he and his friends Sofia and Paul are tricked by the alterant of Tick’s teacher Reginald Chu they are whipped to a world where they must pass a series of tests to survive, but passing the tests will only lead them into deeper danger. A fun novel that is enjoyable to read if you like fantasy. The characters develop strong friendships and Dashner creates a fun world to experience as a reader. Recommended for ag More...

James' writing is getting better and better.

I enjoyed the first book, but I felt it dragged a little bit and the writing wasn't the best.

This time, I got into the book much more. It was a fun and easy read.

Setting: We get to see lots of different realities and Chu Industries. James has some fun insights into the various realities.

Plot: Tick and his friends have to stop Chu from making everyone insane with his dark infinity machine. They get help from some old friends, new friends, and even an ol More...

In the second of The 13th Reality series, Atticus, Sophia, and Paul are together again and find themselves facing a larger problem in the realities than their previous adventure. Something is causing people to go crazy in other realities and Master George believes that the evil Reginald Chu from the 4th Reality is behind it. As the three friends meet back up with old characters--Mothball, Rutger, Sato, and Master George, and begin another mission and another adventure they must find a way to pas More...

Reviewed by Breia "The Brain" Brickey for TeensReadToo.com

This book begins with Tick, Paul, and Sofia getting a message from Master George that the realities are in danger.

He tells them that they need to meet with others to decide what must be done. Instead of going to Master George, as they should have, they are sent to another reality all together. They believe that Master George has sent them on a series of tests in different realities with deadly traps all around them.

Mr. Chu, from the Fourt More...

This book suffers from the same problems as the first book: some of the ancillary characters are as absurd as in the first book. In addition, Jane's sudden bout of conscience all but destroys her as a villain for me. On the other hand, the primary strength of the first book is also magnified: the world of the thirteen realities is expanded to realistic and fascinating conclusions.

This book has some marvelous moments—the initial confrontation between Reginald and Jane and Sato's requested impris More...

What is going to happen to Tick, Sophie, and Paul? Mistress Jane shows more of who she is by doing riddles for the kids to figure out. The kids realize that everything is happening to Tick. They go from reality to reality trying to find the dark infinity. But will they find it before Mistress Jane? Will they and all who live become her servants or be destroyed? Tick, Sophie and Paul will do everything to make sure each reality is safe from the dark infinity, but they need to find it first.

tick, paul, and sophia have to kill tick's science teacher Reginald Chu(the one in the future) because he is making a potion called dark infinity so everyone will obey him.tick teams up with his past enemy, mistress jane and tried to stop him. tick have a power that is so strong that he did ot relize untill he used it. it was so strong it could kill more than a person at a time. mistress jane wants that, so she decided to help tick.at the end, tick used his powers on mistress jane and reginald c More...

I can't believe I made it through. Really, I only did it because none of the other books on CD I've requested from the library are available yet. I really, REALLY didn't enjoy the rendering by the narrator, so maybe that skews my view of the novel as a whole, but 70% of the time I was bored, and 30% of the time I was scoffing at the writing style! (I sound like such a snob, but I can't help myself!) I did laugh a couple of times.

I will NOT be continuing the series.

This is the second novel in The 13th Reality series, which is shaping up to be a pretty solid series. This go around, Tick and his friends are about to be winked away to a special meeting, when instead they find themselves kidnapped by the evil Reginald Chu. Chu sends them throughout several of the realities to test them, similar, but much more dangerous than the Master George's tests in the first novel.

It's fun to be immersed into Dashner's universe. I liked seeing some of the other realities a More...

This book was a great science fiction book. The book was very intense, and James Dashner wrote with just the right amount of detail, and has an amazing vocabulary. In one part, Tick (the main character), was on a mission to stop a disease. He had an antidote, but he just had to get to the machine that was controlling the disease. Another girl, Mistress Jane, was also trying to get there. Mistress Jane was trying to suffocate Tick, and I thought for sure he was going to die. Then, she flew back a More...

A good, solid second book in this series. There were parts in this book that I liked better than the first book but also some things that I didn't like as well. I thought that the author's writing style improved and that he got away from a lot of the stupid metaphors that he had used so frequently in the first book - although there are some in this book still, it was not anywhere as bad as the first book. I thought that the author struggled some with the telling of the story though because there More...

It's always interesting to see how the second book in a series will play out. Will the character development from book 1 give way to lots of action in book 2? Will the plot of the new book fall short of expectations based on the original? I'm happy to say this sequel built on a great premise and delivered its own enjoyable journey. I'll definitely be following Tick through more adventures.