Please enable JavaScript
Fantasy | Page 182 | LitPick Book Reviews
Fantasy
The Vault Keepers: The Journal
The Vault Keepers: The Journal
Sixty-eight seasons of darkness have now passed since the vast majority of the Earth’s population ended in an explosive holocaust. Out of the destructive chaos, a new society emerged, one that strictly forbids any knowledge of the past. This poses great danger to Kally, Quinn, Jade, and Doc, four tightly knit friends from the village of Serenity, who stumble upon a secret hidden vault buried deep in the woods. In one of its main chambers sits an old journal containing the writings of a father and son, Jason and Tad Hastings. It is through their eyes that the four friends become fascinated as they explore the details of the events leading up to the Big Occurrence.Over the next several seasons, Kally and the others continue to secretly visit the vault, gaining knowledge and understanding of their current existence. Unfortunately, they find themselves faced with a difficult dilemma for they cannot share what they have learned without facing banishment or even death. While they face this challenge, Serenity experiences a formidable event in the sky...something so bizarre and mysterious that the friends find themselves caught up in a new adventure - an adventure that will take then to new worlds - worlds that are in desperate need of the knowledge contained in the Vault and the Journal.

Book Details

The Summoning Sphere (A Blake and Riley Adventure Book 1)
The Summoning Sphere (A Blake and Riley Adventure)
Ten-year old Blake and eight-year old Riley are just your average suburban brothers spending their summer vacation honing their skills at Mario Kart and swimming at the pool. But the boys’ predictable summer changes in an instant when they find a strange gold sphere in a box in their neighbor’s shed. As Blake and Riley ponder their discovery, they are suddenly whisked away to a medieval world and thrust into a desperate attempt to save a young princess in danger.

Book Details

The Rising (The Lost Children of Managrail Book 1)
The Rising (The Lost Children of Managrail)
The Utopian society of Managrail has lost its young king, and Queen Raina must raise their twins, the impetuous Lila, and her sullen brother Simian alone. No one could know that one of Lila’s demands will change the lands forever. Lila and Simian have awakened the Fergay, ancient beasts that hunger for flesh, and it is plentiful in Managrail. Armed with magic talismans the Light Bringers, they will face challenges beyond their imaginations. Privilege won’t save them from death, nor will it save them from a journey of love and betrayal that will last two years. A colorful cast of characters joins them and together they will face an evil long forgotten. A magic war is on the horizon, and all the tribes will unite for one last time to stand against the Sorceress Shantra from the White Realm. With Lila’s help Shantra hopes to break free from her frozen prison of one hundred years. Will the talismans and revenge finally be hers? Little does anyone realize that the Light Bringers hold their own secret plan.

Book Details

The Price of Mercy
The Price of Mercy
Jarrin Lestrave thought things were bad when he was forced to become a gigolo to a lusty baroness. When she drops him for a new lover, he sneaks into an imperial ball hoping to find a new patroness. Yet when the moment comes, he leaves his mystery lady with nothing more than a kiss. Before the next day has barely begun, Jarrin is condemned for treason, his attempted escape thwarted by the mysterious Twelve. Then he learns his sentence: immortal life as a monster in the service of the emperor for despoiling the woman he left untouched in the garden: Her Imperial Highness Princess Yolandra.

Book Details

The Power of Powers: Volume One of the Huaxia Journals
The Power of Powers: Vol 1 Huaxia Journals
Orchid Huang and her brother Monkey couldn't be more different. She loves reading, studying, and learning about the world. He likes kicking back with his feet on a chair and his headphones turned up. She dreams of great discoveries while they travel the world with their archeologist dad. He just wants to find ways to avoid hard work.On a trip near the ancient silk route, they make a discovery that changes their lives--and just might change history. A mystic force takes them three thousand years into the past where they get stuck in the middle of a war between two powerful dynasties. Worse yet, it's up to them to stop the war.Orchid wants to help. Monkey just wants to get home. An evil sorcerer wants them dead. With the help of an old hermit, a young girl, and some friendly gods, Orchid and Monkey discover their own strengths and powers. Will it be enough to fight off the sorcerer, magical beasts, and an entire army of battle-hardened soldiers?

Book Details

The Moon Coin (The Moon Realm Series, Book 1)

Book Details

From the Publisher

The Lantern Menace
The Lantern Menace
Princess Castria is a hurricane in a tiara who pushes her royal powers (and not to mention her best friend Finch’s nerves) to their absolute limits with her pranks. But when she steals a dusty old lantern belonging to a one-eyed wizard, not only has she put the kingdom of Fanthia at risk, but there’s a distinct possibility that the Wold itself might be in danger… Castria has no idea that the lantern contains the incarcerated soul of D’Monica Grace: the witch responsible for the darkest period in the Wold’s history – and now it has fallen into Fanthia’s enemies’ hands, with plans to reconstitute the ultimate evil into flesh, blood and bone once more. Along with Fanthia’s resident spell-crafter, Rufus Lightfoot, the troublesome princess (with Finch swept up in her wake) must set forth on a race against time to retrieve the lantern before D’Monica’s soul is reborn and the Wold is plunged into despair. It’s going to be an impossible journey with danger and betrayal at every turn, and many factions conspiring against Finch and Castria, determined to see them fail...and even if they are successful, nothing will ever be the same again.

Book Details

The Laketown Loners
The Laketown Loners
Every school has at least one Julian Peabody, but rarely does anyone know these kids by their real names. In Julian’s case, he’s Pee-bedy, Jewels, or more recently, Piebody. Prone to unwanted attention from bullies and embarrassing mishaps, he is the boy most kids at school try hard to avoid. A move to tiny Laketown changes little - that is, until Julian begins to sense that the enormous lake that now makes up his backyard is hiding mysteries, extraordinary places and objects that he feels compelled to find but never will on his own. Luckily, there are others in Laketown like Julian: odd but gifted teens accustomed to living life alone but who long for a friend. There’s the husky boy who takes endless abuse but never fights back, the frail, home-schooled kid who rarely leaves his house, and the quirky girl who inexplicably makes everyone else uneasy. Bringing together four self-defensive, naive loners is what Julian must do if he is to uncover what the lake keeps well-hidden. Lacking superior strength or speed and having no access to traditional weaponry, the Loners must overcome conditions and creatures where all are essential. If they fail, more will be sacrificed than they ever imagined.

Book Details

The House of Sherbet
The House of Sherbet
Thirteen year old Jake spends Christmas with his parents at the Oakhouse, the once grand, now decrepit home to his grandfather. Jake quickly begins to realise that the Oakhouse and Granddad Sherbet are not all they seem. On Christmas Eve, Jake's parents disappear, only to reappear six inches tall and having been turned to wood. 

Granddad Sherbet, together with his octogenarian friends, prepares to steal Jake's youth and nascent magical powers.

Book Details

The Black Stone Prophecy
The Black Stone Prophecy (Volume 1)
Tom O'Malley is a sarcastic, popular 12-year old who has spent the past year avoiding friends and hiding out at home after a terrible accident. But when Tom finally agrees to leave home for summer camp, he is drawn into the transformative world of Nyi, where the secrets of Earth -- from the extinction of the dinosaurs to the origins of trolls -- are revealed, and where Tom and his friends must face an ancient evil. This suspenseful, witty debut novel deftly explores the power of friendship and the importance of believing in and accepting one's own transformation. It leaves readers begging for the second book in what has the potential to become a beloved middle grade fantasy series.

Book Details

Pages



RECENT BOOK REVIEWS