Book source ~ NetGalley
24 September 2013
Middle Grade | Fantasy
368 Pages
My Rating ~ 4 bites
When Bobby Ether makes a
too good to be true, amazing, winning shot at his middle school basketball
championship, he knows something weird happened, but has no idea what. A
mysterious woman named Cassandra who says she knows his grandfather shows up and tells him he’s a wielder of
energy. No, it’s not magic and he’s not Harry Potter. She says she needs to
protect him from the even stranger men who show up, so she whisks him away.
He eventually ends up in their clutches and they take him to a
monastery in Tibet, so he can learn all about energy and his particular skills
at it. However, Bobby is having a rough time adjusting and he can’t do diddly.
That’s when things get even more interesting.
Bobby is 14, but you’d
think he’d know better than to run off with strangers. Yet he does. What a
tool. Anyway, it’s hard to tell who the bad guys are in the beginning, but soon
it’s pretty clear by the creep and jerk factors. The concept is pretty good,
the execution not so bad, but the characters lack depth and then it ends in a
cliffhanger. Overall though, it’s not a bad read that had me turning the pages
to see what would happen next.
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