Showing posts with label fablehaven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fablehaven. Show all posts

Sunday, July 17, 2011

The madness is coming to an end.

book #6: Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison by: Brandon Mull


So, this is when everything comes together. It's the end of the Fablehaven Series, and everything has been leading up to the ending of this book. It's crazy sauce what happens, andit makes perfect sense. I don't think it really needs a summary, as you wouldn't read this book without having read all four of the other books. So hopefully you've made it this far! As always, I recommend this book!

Lions, Tigers, and... Dragons? Oh... my?

book #5: Fablehaven: Secret of the Dragon Sanctuary by: Brandon Mull

So, I find these dragons to be a smidge weird-lookin'. But you know, not really my place to say anything. And... that has nothing to do with the contents of the book. So, the gang is led to a place called Wyrmroost. It's a dragon sanctuary, no big. Just a place filled with dragons that paralyze you with fear if you look at them, unless you're a dragon tamer. Which are super special people, by the way. And if Seth and Kendra hold hands, they become one, it's super cool. Which reminds me, in one of the books, I don't recall which one, they go to the Lost Mesa, which is another secret preserve like Fablehaven and recover another artifact. Strange that I forgot that. Anywho, before they go to Wyrmroost, they have to find a unicorn's third horn (they have three throughout their entire life, just a side note) as that's the key to get in to Wyrmroost. The closest one just happens to be the heart of Grunhold, which is where the Centaurs live at Fablehaven, and just a clue, they are all super jerks. They wouldn't let them borrow it, but they got the horn anyways... no spoilers as to how! They make their way to Wyrmroost and have a limited amount of time to get what they need and get out. Kendra meets a fairy dragon (his egg was cared for by the fairy queen... it's explained in the book) and he helps throughout the rest of the series. They make it out alive and they got what they went there to get... which was the key to the artifact at another secret preserve... which I didn't mention... but anyways, crazy things happen towards the end of this book that will just make you crazy.

My recommendation stays the same, I recommend this boooooooooook! The things that go down in this book, are nuts. Romance transpires, friends are lost (lost in the way you lose the keys not lost as in lost forever, I think...) and interesting twists are made in the plot. I seem to be forgetting a lot in my summaries, which is either good, so I don't ruin the book; or bad because you'll get confused because I told you about the wrong things. But I hope you enjoy!

Now there are artifacts to protect, eh?

book #3: Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star by: Brandon Mull


So in this book, the craziness really begins. A man poses as a friend and happens to get Seth and Kendra to steal a demon from a safehouse. This demon has to be fed to be moved and if he bites you, he will kill you. He just keeps growing and growing, and eventually, he's going to kill you. He's an interesting demon, and I forget his name. So anyways, the kids realize he's with the Society of the Evening Star (which, I don't think I've mentioned yet, they are trying to destroy all the preserves-like Fablehaven- so that all magical creatures/demons/general magical hobos can run free, not good) so they flee back to Fablehaven ASAP. To get there, a woman named Vanessa shows up, who they've never met before, and races them to the preserve. Once there, they meet Coulter and Tanu. A little introduction? Vanessa is a mystical creature trapper and has a billion and a half animals of all sorts. Coulter is a magical relics collector and expert, he has amulets and such out the kazoo and has this nifty glove that makes you invisible, if you don't move, that is. And Tanu, he's a potion master, which is slightly self-explanatory, but something cool, he has a potion that can turn you into like... a mist? if that's even a good way to explain it...anyways, he's a pretty chill dude. So yeah, those are the specialists that were sent to help the Sorenson's find one of the hidden artifacts or rather protect it... I wouldn't want to give away too much, so I'll just say that Seth saves the day eventually, and they get the artifact and it falls into the hands of someone who they think is a friend, but may end up actually being the foe. You'll have to read the whole series to find out if The Spinx is the good cop or the bad cop. 


Just as the first book, I for sure think you should read this book. It's filled with even more magical creatures that just drive me crazy, and I really wish they were real! But unfortunately, they probably aren't. Only in my dreams I guess. The adventures really begin in this book and the writing isn't noticeably juvenile in this installment. In the first book, I could definitely tell it was written for kids; but in the second, I was able to just read, and not be distracted by the writing style. Definitely an upgrade. :)