The first book in the Camelot Code series, The Once and Future Geek , mixed time travel between the medieval world of King Arthur and our own, and it is a very entertaining book. The second book in the series, Geeks and Holy Grail (Hyperion, October 2019), is also entertaining (though not quite as funny; King Arthur as a modern day high school student is hard to beat....). When Morgana, sworn enemy of King Arthur, attacks the druids of Avalon, Nimue, the youngest of them, takes the Holy Grail and runs with it. King Arthur is dying, and only the Grail can save him. Desperate to keep it from falling into Morgana's hands, she stumbles into Merlin's Crystal Cave. But instead of Merlin there to help her (he's on vacation in Los Vegas, in our time), there's only his very inexperienced apprentice, Emrys. His attempt to hide the grail works, in a sense--as a small, flatulent dragon, it sure doesn't look much like a grail. But it isn't much use to Arthur as a...
By: Charles Benoit
Three teenagers get mysterious phone calls. There is no phone number and no trace of the call. The call requires that each Eric, Shelly, and Fatima bully a specific person in a specific way on a specific day. They are all supposed to call each victim names, bump into them in the hallway, and finish it off by pouring mac and cheese onto the victim's head, video it, and post it on Youtube. If Eric, Shelly, and Fatima don't do what the caller demands then the caller will reveal a big secret about each one of them to everyone they know. At first, these high schoolers don't know each other, but they meet when they are all sent to the same bullying program. For the remainder of the book Eric, Shelly, and Fatima work together to find out who the mysterious caller is and how to get the caller to stop.
I was surprised by this book. To me, the plot seemed sort of dumb. Why would I want to read a book about some teenagers that are getting blackmailed into bullying someone? It really did not sound interesting. That being said, that isn't exactly what the book is about. Most of the book focuses on Eric, Shelly, and Fatima figuring out how to catch the caller and the backstory of each character. I was also surprised by the depth of the characters. They were surprisingly realistic. The motives were also very fitting for each character. The motives seemed to build the character, not just take from it. Overall, this book was pretty good. It did lack some excitement and was slow from time to time, but other than that, the book was interesting. The one thing I found the book lacked was a realistic antagonist. The motive behind the "cold calls" was underwhelming. The ending of the book also seemed a little clipped and unclear. However, what I found to be unclear I don't think was intentionally ambiguous. I just thought the writing confusing at the end. This book was like broccoli -- pretty tasty but could have been better. It had a good flavor but not one I would call excellent. This book was a 2.25
I was surprised by this book. To me, the plot seemed sort of dumb. Why would I want to read a book about some teenagers that are getting blackmailed into bullying someone? It really did not sound interesting. That being said, that isn't exactly what the book is about. Most of the book focuses on Eric, Shelly, and Fatima figuring out how to catch the caller and the backstory of each character. I was also surprised by the depth of the characters. They were surprisingly realistic. The motives were also very fitting for each character. The motives seemed to build the character, not just take from it. Overall, this book was pretty good. It did lack some excitement and was slow from time to time, but other than that, the book was interesting. The one thing I found the book lacked was a realistic antagonist. The motive behind the "cold calls" was underwhelming. The ending of the book also seemed a little clipped and unclear. However, what I found to be unclear I don't think was intentionally ambiguous. I just thought the writing confusing at the end. This book was like broccoli -- pretty tasty but could have been better. It had a good flavor but not one I would call excellent. This book was a 2.25
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