Good but a few issues...
Andrew is a young kid who has a very difficult life. He has expectations that he can't possibly live up to and no one understands him it seems except for his best friend. When Andrew is suddenly whisked away to the future he finds himself in the middle of an adventure he never thought possible. Will Andrew be able to help them defeat the Harbingers before everything is destroyed? Okay so I have a few problems with this book. The first problem is rather obvious and that is the fact that this book is full of dialogue to the extreme. There is not a lot of scenery description and the reader is left to completely use their imagination on what they are reading. Most readers would not be sucked into the story because they would not be able to paint the right picture. This is a big problem because this is part of what lets you fall into the story and be enveloped in the author's world that they have created. Secondly I have a pet peeve, in the story it refers to something called The Great War, which in the book refers to a war that has not happened yet. However anyone that has read a history book or that can look up "the great war" on Google will know that this for actually refers to WWI. I found this piece to be a slight show of incompetence in research for the book. If you are going to write a book that starts off in the real world, which this one does, and then moves along into fantasy you want to make sure that you still do your research. But this is just a personal pet peeve. The story itself is well written but not fleshed out enough. I feel that instead of marketing this as a YA book it would be better marketed as a preteen fantasy that is suitable for younger readers ages 7 to 13. I feel that with its shorter length and the way that the story is written that it would be more advantageous to market it in this way. Other than that it was an enjoyable short read. I personally would recommend this to the proper age group and not target it towards an older age group that may not get as much enjoyment out of it.
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