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 Terence Blacker
Efren is a rat living in the rat kingdom in the sewers. When the king dies and new leaders are selected, they decide that humans are a bigger threat than they had previously believed and they decide to wage war. Meanwhile, a human doctor who has been studying the rats decides that they are one of the biggest threats to humans, and he rallies the people of the city to attack the rats. Then Efren and some human children meet, and both types of animals have to decide which side deserves their victory.
Efren was a likable character. He noticed that he had differences, but he accepted them and still tried to serve his kingdom as best he could. The children, Dogboy and Caz, both have interesting back stories and conflicts that they have to deal with. Out of all the characters, only Efren, Dogboy, Caz, and two others really try to understand anything about the other species. This helps flesh them out, but the whole war between rats and humans seemed blown a little out of proportion. If you accepted it as it was though, it was a pretty good story.
The pacing was often off for me. There were a lot of parts that should have taken a while but passed by fairly quickly and parts that should have gone faster that took a long time. The individual scenes were alright; it was the overall passage of time that wasn’t quite right.
This is a 3.2. I liked the rats and their kingdom and the two children. I didn’t like most of the other characters and parts of it dragged, but I did like the story as a whole. It is like store-bought chicken pot pie. It’s not store-bought because it feels generic but because it didn’t have the warm, savory, homey feel about it. There are some things in the pie that you like and some that you don’t, but mixed up all together, it’s still pretty good.
Efren is a rat living in the rat kingdom in the sewers. When the king dies and new leaders are selected, they decide that humans are a bigger threat than they had previously believed and they decide to wage war. Meanwhile, a human doctor who has been studying the rats decides that they are one of the biggest threats to humans, and he rallies the people of the city to attack the rats. Then Efren and some human children meet, and both types of animals have to decide which side deserves their victory.Efren was a likable character. He noticed that he had differences, but he accepted them and still tried to serve his kingdom as best he could. The children, Dogboy and Caz, both have interesting back stories and conflicts that they have to deal with. Out of all the characters, only Efren, Dogboy, Caz, and two others really try to understand anything about the other species. This helps flesh them out, but the whole war between rats and humans seemed blown a little out of proportion. If you accepted it as it was though, it was a pretty good story.
The pacing was often off for me. There were a lot of parts that should have taken a while but passed by fairly quickly and parts that should have gone faster that took a long time. The individual scenes were alright; it was the overall passage of time that wasn’t quite right.
This is a 3.2. I liked the rats and their kingdom and the two children. I didn’t like most of the other characters and parts of it dragged, but I did like the story as a whole. It is like store-bought chicken pot pie. It’s not store-bought because it feels generic but because it didn’t have the warm, savory, homey feel about it. There are some things in the pie that you like and some that you don’t, but mixed up all together, it’s still pretty good.
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