And of course, FATE steps in, because it is the deus ex machina of the book for every single time the author writes himself into a corner.Īs FATE is the ten thousand pound gorilla in this fantasy, there's not much room left for bravery or bravado on the part of either Leven or Winter. Anyway, whenever Leven or Winter don't want to listen, Clover and Geth sit back and smugly tell them to trust in FATE. Yes, he's that annoying, and yes, I was imagining all sorts of painful fates for him. Throughout the book Leven and Winter are reluctant to blindly follow the orders of Clover - a catlike creature who is somewhere between a house elf and Jar Jar Binks. Secondly, there's there's the over use of FATE. I'm not a fan of Stevens's odd over enunciation of words or how often he mispronounces words. As this is an audio, the first and foremost, is the performance. There are a number of distractions with this book. Finally, there's Geth (who Stevens pronounces as Gef), once a king and now through the power of "Fate", a walking, talking tooth pick. No mention is made as to the fate of exchanged baby. Winter is a changeling, left in the care of a mother not at all interested in being a parent. The titular character is Leven, an orphan left in the care of his mother's half sister and her lazy husband.
Most of the book is spent in uniting these three before they can set off on the quest to stop the Foovian hell bent on giving all of Foo a chance to return to Earth. In comic book fashion, we're given three origin stories to see how the three unlikely heroes have ended up in Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma.
Show More together can either be the land's salvation or its destruction. Good for advanced readers, complicated plot, fantasy. There is a battle but Leven makes it to Foo, destroys the gate, and meets his grandmother. They get to the lake, but there Leven mets Sabine. Via trains, a stolen car that they drive and sail across the ocean on and ice road that Winter makes and then being picked up by a ship, they make it to France. Leven cannot sleep at all or the shadows find him. They finally connect and begin the journey toward Germany where the gate is. Together they are trying to find Geth, who was a big tree in Leven's backyard, but he is chopped down, wood sold, and turned into a toothpick. Foo is the land where all our dreams come from and if Sabine finds the gateway and takes over the two, dreams will be lost and mankind in trouble.
Show More arrives, Clover, a nit, reveals himself to Leven and explains that Leven must go to the land of Foo and protect it from Sabine.
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