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2.75
If you are looking for an Arthur Pendragon/Camelot story this is not for you.
This book took me a while to get into. I wasn't clicking with the whole journal style. It was very inconsistent. One moment it felt like a first-person omniscient narration and then other times it was first-person limited. Also, when Bobby would talk directly to Mark in the journals it really stopped the flow of the story. It got better as it progressed, but it did take me over 100 pages (1/3) of the book to sorta get into the story. ( )

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I've had this book and audiobook for ages (we're talking nearly a decade) and just haven't got to them. I was impressed with the amount of world-building and imagination that this first book has. It was loads of fun and a real roller coaster ride. One MacHale started things rolling, the action never stopped. At times, it felt like the narrator was out of breath he was talking so fast. Although I enjoyed the story a lot, I think I would have liked it more when I first bought the books a decade ago. As a matter of fact, I would have loved them as a teenager. ( )

Definitely a good start to the series. It took a while to get into, but once I started appreciating the plot, I knew I'd found a new series with real promise.
Bobby Pendragon is totally confused. One minute, he's ready for a major basketball game and the girl of his dreams has kissed him, and the next, his weird uncle is dragging him off with a cryptic story about saving the world.
It's about to get stranger.
Bobby's introduction into his first 'territory', Denduron, is not too fast-paced, not too slow. Easy for the reader to slip into. Because Bobby is a Traveler, whether he wants to be or not, and it is his destiny to travel through worlds and times keeping chaos from getting the upper hand.
With his two best friends back home on Earth (or actually, 'Second Earth'), reading the journals he sends home, Bobby, his Uncle Press, a warrior girl named Loor, and a knight named Alder must try to mediate an age-old conflict between one tribe enslaved by another. Bobby's narration really makes the book; he comes off as a perfectly real 14-year-old stuck in a wild situation, sometimes brave, sometimes crazy, often scared out of his mind, and not afraid to admit it.
I'm definitely looking for the other books in the series next. ( )

I listened to the audio version of this and the narrator wasn't particularly to my liking. I think I would have enjoyed this much more had I read it instead of listened to it. It is on my list of books to introduce to my fourth grader. ( )

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