Free Realms Book 2

by J.S. Lewis, Jon Sommariva (Illustrator)

All Maya the pixie wants after her latest adventure is to return to a life of anonymity, but Dane is looking to enter the Royal Scavenger Hunt and he's begging Maya to join him.

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 14, 2010

About the author

Born early enough to remember rotary phones, typewriters, and the glory years of Atari, J.S. Lewis has lived a rather obscure life in the shadows of many nearly famous people.

A member of the Grey Griffins (a secret club of courageous children who have vowed to save the world from evil overlords, alien invasions and Brussels sprouts), Lewis grew up in the heartland of America. Yearning to become a marine biologist, but perplexed by the lack of exotic saltwater marine life in both Iowa and Minnesota (perch don't count), he headed west. Sadly, his quest for the sea ended too soon, stranding him in the blustering desert of Arizona, where dreams of discovering new breeds of ferocious sharks were all but destroyed.

So it was, dejected and wandering like a drifting vagabond, that Lewis explored an eclectic career that would include news reporting, radio producing, animation, multi-media design, mural painting, speech writing, video game development and marketing.

Ever searching for new forms of creative expression, Lewis and boyhood friend Derek Benz sought to make their indelible mark through the written word. Thus from that collaboration was penned the Grey Griffins series by Scholastic, Inc.

Lewis is currently working on a variety of projects that include feature films, comic books, graphic novels, animated series, and a variety of philanthropic endeavors.

You can learn more about his most recent adventures by visiting http://www.myspace.com/jonslewis.

Reviews

[Billy H]

not as great as the first one but still a fun read. Art great.

[not you]

my feeling about this comic is the same as the first one but this one doesnt have an art style i personally like, it still has the free realms essence but not as much as the first one. i still hate dane. the writing is worse in this one and it’s basically just a speed run of some of the major dungeons from the game and two mini games(which is fine but it really isn’t more than that). there’s also a fatphobic “joke”(insult). this one is bellow bare minimum tbh

[B. Barron]

Mediocre writing and passable art as epitaph for a defunct Online MMORPG.
Disappointing and sad.
Probably a kindness the game is lost to history if the comic is an example of its writing and creativity.
There are worse things to read under the suns, but you should still look elsewhere for enjoyment.

[Peacegal]

While the illustrations are decent, the story is lackluster.