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What could go wrong when you use a wormhole to travel to a different universe? Abbey has many hypotheses, but nobody wants to use the scientific method to find out.
So Abbey, Caleb, Simon, and Mark plunge blindly through the wormhole in search of their parents, accompanied by the ever-enigmatic Sylvain. They encounter powerful witches and fierce switchers on the verge of war, are forced to “physic” their way out of multiple situations, and discover that Ian is not who he seems.
Mark, who finds himself revered as special in this strange new land, must find the warrior within himself, while Abbey struggles to open her mind to her parents and her brothers.
But Sandy is on their trail, as is a general in the US military who’s in search of an element needed to fuel space travel and save Earth. When Sandy grows a new grave tree and the wormhole gets stuck open, the world they have entered tips over into armed conflict—and only Abbey, Caleb, Simon, and Mark can stop it.
So Abbey, Caleb, Simon, and Mark plunge blindly through the wormhole in search of their parents, accompanied by the ever-enigmatic Sylvain. They encounter powerful witches and fierce switchers on the verge of war, are forced to “physic” their way out of multiple situations, and discover that Ian is not who he seems.
Mark, who finds himself revered as special in this strange new land, must find the warrior within himself, while Abbey struggles to open her mind to her parents and her brothers.
But Sandy is on their trail, as is a general in the US military who’s in search of an element needed to fuel space travel and save Earth. When Sandy grows a new grave tree and the wormhole gets stuck open, the world they have entered tips over into armed conflict—and only Abbey, Caleb, Simon, and Mark can stop it.
364 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2016
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Jennifer Ellis
15 books102 followersJennifer lives in the mountains of Canada where she can be found writing, hiking, skiing, borrowing dogs, and evading bears. She also works occasionally as an environmental researcher.
Jennifer writes science fiction, romance and dystopian fiction for children and adults, including Apocalypse Weird: Reversal in Wonderment Media's Apocalypse Weird world and A Pair of Docks, which was a bestseller in children's time travel fiction. She has also contributed to several anthologies, most notably Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel, which hit #16 in the Kindle Store.
She may or may not have a Ph.D. and dabble in tarot card reading and cat sitting. You can subscribe to her blog for the latest book news and industry insights at www.jenniferellis.ca. She tweets about writing, cats, and teenagers at @jenniferlellis.
Author Photo by Carmen Adams, Fresh Photo.
Jennifer writes science fiction, romance and dystopian fiction for children and adults, including Apocalypse Weird: Reversal in Wonderment Media's Apocalypse Weird world and A Pair of Docks, which was a bestseller in children's time travel fiction. She has also contributed to several anthologies, most notably Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel, which hit #16 in the Kindle Store.
She may or may not have a Ph.D. and dabble in tarot card reading and cat sitting. You can subscribe to her blog for the latest book news and industry insights at www.jenniferellis.ca. She tweets about writing, cats, and teenagers at @jenniferlellis.
Author Photo by Carmen Adams, Fresh Photo.
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April 29, 2017
“What could go wrong when you use a wormhole?” Well, I’ve made plenty go wrong when my characters use a wormhole, but Abbey, Caleb, Mark and their friends are more used to jumping through time on the ‘docks’ than space, which is what happens here. They are still in deep trouble.
Despite being in an entirely new place with some wondrously inventive world-building going on, I felt much more at home in this book than the previous one. I think this may be partly because we are in one time and space place, not multiple and crossing dimensions as in the other books. Also, we tend to stick with Mark’s adventure, then Abbey’s, rather than more complex arrangements of who knows whom, and who’s with whom, in which alternative reality. Also, all the characters whose names begin with S started to make sense to me (although I still get some of them mixed up). The two factions within the new world are nicely delineated and I loved it when the Sixth showed their abilities. The atmosphere under the mountain (an Abbey and Caleb journey) was intense, suffocating and ghostly all at the same time.
There is a protracted battle towards the end, which started to make me wonder whether this can still be classed as MG, but like a lot of us who start series within MG, they seem to grow up of their own accord. There is nothing gratuitous, but it is fierce, and people die. The combination of ‘alternative’ powers and science/technology in this book is terrific, and it all comes to a head in this battle.
This episode is pacy, informative, beautifully descriptive, and really brings you into a sense of place (even when in no-place – like Harry in King’s Cross in HP Book 7). If, like me, you’ve followed the series through, you’ll be feeling more confident about tackling the next in the series. If you haven’t read the series yet, start with A Pair of Docks. You won’t regret it.
Despite being in an entirely new place with some wondrously inventive world-building going on, I felt much more at home in this book than the previous one. I think this may be partly because we are in one time and space place, not multiple and crossing dimensions as in the other books. Also, we tend to stick with Mark’s adventure, then Abbey’s, rather than more complex arrangements of who knows whom, and who’s with whom, in which alternative reality. Also, all the characters whose names begin with S started to make sense to me (although I still get some of them mixed up). The two factions within the new world are nicely delineated and I loved it when the Sixth showed their abilities. The atmosphere under the mountain (an Abbey and Caleb journey) was intense, suffocating and ghostly all at the same time.
There is a protracted battle towards the end, which started to make me wonder whether this can still be classed as MG, but like a lot of us who start series within MG, they seem to grow up of their own accord. There is nothing gratuitous, but it is fierce, and people die. The combination of ‘alternative’ powers and science/technology in this book is terrific, and it all comes to a head in this battle.
This episode is pacy, informative, beautifully descriptive, and really brings you into a sense of place (even when in no-place – like Harry in King’s Cross in HP Book 7). If, like me, you’ve followed the series through, you’ll be feeling more confident about tackling the next in the series. If you haven’t read the series yet, start with A Pair of Docks. You won’t regret it.
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