Danger Lies Ahead

Adventures in Odyssey #7

by Paul McCusker

"One thing I've learned is that nobody is what they seem to be." That's what the new kid told me, anyway. And he just might be right. Things have beena bit strange around Odyssey lately. My name's Jack Davis. My friend Lucy just told me that an escaped convict could be heading straight for our town! On top of that, I know Joe Devlin, the school bully, is repeating sixth grade. I'm not sure which of the two I should be more afraid of. And if that wasn't enough, that new kid, Colin, has been telling me some really wild stuff. I'm not sure what to think, but I could sure use your help in figuring out who to trust!

Genres: Fiction, Christian, Childrens

99 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Paul McCusker is a writer of many different kinds of things. You may know him from Adventures In Odyssey and Focus On The Family Radio Theatre. Or the Father Gilbert Mysteries. Or the Augustine Institute audio dramas Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi and The Trials of Saint Patrick. Or plays like The First Church of Pete's Garage and Catacombs. Or C.S. Lewis projects like The Chronicles of Narnia audio dramas or The Annotated Screwtape Letters. Or the film Beyond The Mask. Or lots of other dramas, novels, scripts and lyrics. He simply can't make up his mind what he likes to write.

Reviews

[Just a Girl Fighting Censorship · Rating 3 out of 5]

First off, the abandonment of our main character up to this point, Mark Prescott, was a bit jarring. Especially because I don't remember our new main character, Jack Davis, ever being mentioned before the in the previous 6 books. Also, I didn't feel that there was anything particularly special about Jack, he seemed pretty interchangeable, Mark but with married parents. Jack witnesses Mark saying goodbye to Patti and leaving from a distance which I think should have been from Mark's perspective and part of book 6, The King's Quest.

Setting that aside, the story in this one was interesting and we meet a good handful of new characters.

The new kid in Odyssey, Colin, was a pretty irredeemable jerk and made our previous bully, Joe, look like a saint.

I did like the main messages of this book which were all about trusting friends and escaping deception. I like that it highlighted that lies can have a grain of truth but if you stop to really analyze them they fall apart, a very good and always timely lesson.

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Time to return to odyssey

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Uh, has Odyssey always been so scary and intense? 😅