Books, Books, Books!

(Image from Amazon.com.)

Wow.  I love the library.  A while ago, I reserved a book at the library, having either seen it on a bestseller list or read a summary or both.  A couple of weeks ago, after I'd forgotten all about the hold, the book came in.  I started reading, and was hooked by about chapter three.  Amazing book: great characters, plot, humor., etc.

The book's called Fablehaven, and is (as I was very excited to learn at the end of the library's paperback version) part of a series.  The fifth (and final?) book is coming out THIS MONTH!!

The book is categorized more for younger readers, and though people get confused sometimes when they see me reading a children's book, I'm okay, because there's no denying good literature.  Last I heard, that Harry Potter kid was doing pretty well.

I shan't summarize the plot because it's difficult to explain without somebody saying, "So it's like Spiderwick?" or "Oh, it's a fantasy."  It's easier for me to simply say "READ IT," in an intense, wide-eyed way which makes people start reading "it" just to have an excuse to go to a different room.

However, I will say that in the books, I enjoy the fact that the main characters, Seth and Kendra, aren't orphans, or in love with a vampire (or werewolf), as is really the only stuff on shelves these days*.  I love that Seth and Kendra's grandparents are major characters, the different powers some characters got for their bravery, the beautiful artwork by Brandon Dorman, and it does help to have a nice quote from a certain Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game!) on the back cover.

So, on March 23, I hope to be turning the pages of my own copy of "Keys to the Demon Prison"!  I'd better finish book four soon!

Oh, and apparently Fablehaven is going to be a movie!!





*I did enjoy the Twilight Saga, but enough is enough!  If I see a cover with a title like Forever Blood**, etc., I move on to find some Hogwarts, Camp Half-Blood, or Fablehaven.

**Just made this title up, please don't search for it.