LitPick Review
Six young teens find themselves kidnapped on a hostile planet 2.4 million light-years away from Earth. Six months prior, their parents, brilliant scientists of TerraGen Universal, vanished after being sent to the same planet on an expedition. Working for MetaUniversal Genetics, ex-CIA agent Lachlan Evans, Washington DC power broker Robert Morton, and former security director of TerraGen Benton Keene have also traveled through the portal to planet Genesis. All there on a different mission and all faced with the dangers of a planet full of prehistoric monsters, alien cannibals, wizards, warlocks, gnomes ad medieval knights.
Jeremy, Leo, Marissa, Selene, Alexander, and Patrick are all determined to find their missing parents. Lachlan Evans and Benton Keene are there to steal bio weaponry, and they convince Morton to pay for it all. There is a timeline; however, they have less than a month to get back to the portal before it closes for good. Not only do they have to battle the creatures of this mystical world, but also a wizard tells Jeremy that he must fulfill a prophecy. He learns that he is the Paladin that and must save the planet from the Shadow Lord and restore peace to its nations.
Opinion:
Jeremy Austin and the Paladin is a story packed full of adventure. Spence gives the reader plenty of action in a world that is a mixture of science fiction, medieval history, and current real-world aspects. The six teens are individually unique but also connected just like the mixed-up world they are forced to live in to reunite with their parents. Spence gives the reader flashes of their high school memories to show these connections. There is a lot of gross violence, but there is also a lot of comic relief that will have the reader laughing.
This is the second book in the series, and I recommend reading book one, Jeremy Austin and the War World. Also, be prepared to read the next book because the story continues.
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