A review by jbuck1975
The Gateway by Obert Skye
4.0
This was our audio book last month in the car. I found it a couple years ago for a dollar at Waldenbooks, before that went out of business. I put it on the shelf to save for when we needed a book to listen to. No one wants to ever be without a book do they? I plan for this awful possibility so much that we could be snowed in for months and I would never run out of new books to read.
But back to the book, I had my doubts about it because it seemed like if was reduced to a dollar it must not have been very good. It turns out it is the first book in a children's fantasy series. Foo is a world connected to ours, where all dreams happen, sometimes people are sucked into Foo from places where sidewalks don't quite meet up. Currently in Foo there is a being who wants to rule both Foo and our world and the only ones who can save it are two teenagers, as well as two beings from Foo who have come here to guide them.
There is a lot of adventure and a few somewhat scary scenes. Suspense is well done and the worlds seem real. I am on the fence about continuing the series. I wasn't a big fan of the readers voice, not that I can narrow down what it was about his reading, but something about it made me less likely to want to listen if that makes sense. If I find the next book at the library we'll keep going, but I don't see myself buying more of them. They reminded me a bit of the Gregor the Overlander series by Suzanne Collins and maybe even a touch of Harry Potter or Spiderwick Chronicles.
But back to the book, I had my doubts about it because it seemed like if was reduced to a dollar it must not have been very good. It turns out it is the first book in a children's fantasy series. Foo is a world connected to ours, where all dreams happen, sometimes people are sucked into Foo from places where sidewalks don't quite meet up. Currently in Foo there is a being who wants to rule both Foo and our world and the only ones who can save it are two teenagers, as well as two beings from Foo who have come here to guide them.
There is a lot of adventure and a few somewhat scary scenes. Suspense is well done and the worlds seem real. I am on the fence about continuing the series. I wasn't a big fan of the readers voice, not that I can narrow down what it was about his reading, but something about it made me less likely to want to listen if that makes sense. If I find the next book at the library we'll keep going, but I don't see myself buying more of them. They reminded me a bit of the Gregor the Overlander series by Suzanne Collins and maybe even a touch of Harry Potter or Spiderwick Chronicles.