![]() The writing style fluctuates from clever and original to overly verbose and often confusing in its jumble of senses. The bargain they strike sends her on a dark and magical journey throughout the land. Evangeline desperately prays to the Prince of Hearts, a dangerous and fickle Fate famed for his heart that is waiting to be revived by his one true love-and his potentially lethal kisses. Despite inheriting a steady trust in magic, belief in her late mother’s homeland of the mystical North (where fantastical creatures live), and philosophy of hope for the future, her dreams are dashed when Luc, her love, pledges to marry Marisol instead. When her father passes away, Evangeline is left with her cold stepmother and kind but distant stepsister, Marisol. This first installment in a proposed trilogy is absolutely un-put-down-able, more exciting than an X-Box and roller coaster combined.Īfter praying to a Fate for help, Evangeline discovers the dangerous world of magic. Can they get past the naval blockade? Can they survive the sky-borne attack on the blockade? Whom can they trust? Who-or what-is SYLO? And who is fighting whom? MacHale knows boy readers and delivers, giving them an action-packed plot with a likable, Everykid protagonist and doling out answers with just the right amount of parsimony to keep the pages turning. ![]() Tucker and Tori need to get to the mainland to tell their story. There’s no communication from the mainland to the island and no way to get word of what’s happening out to the world. ![]() The country-club golf course has been converted into a military camp run by a division of the military they’ve never heard of: SYLO. The girl he wants to get to know a whole lot better, Tori, is captured along with Tucker and imprisoned behind barbed wire. Navy, things start to fall apart, and Tucker can’t stand aside for long. But when the island is quarantined by the U.S. For now, warming the bench at the weekly football games is just fine with him. He likes life on tiny, fictional Pemberwick Island, Maine, and hopes to take over his father’s landscaping business eventually. While his friends talk about going out into the world and doing great things, he prefers to dream small. Look to the sky because Pemberwick is only the first stop.This riveting novel starts with a question: How safe is it to remain uninvolved?Īt 14, Tucker Pierce is all about fitting in and going with the flow. Only Tucker holds the clues that can solve this deadly mystery. He tasted the Ruby - and experienced the powers it gave him - for himself. He saw the bizarre midnight explosion over the ocean, and the mysterious singing aircraft that travel like shadows through the night sky. He was on the sidelines when the high school running back dropped dead with no warning. ![]() Tucker believes there’s more to SYLO’s story. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. They came from the sky parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. The ultimate action-fueled end-of-the-world conspiracy trilogy from number-one New York Times best-selling author D. ![]()
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